First Grizzled Skipper of the year for me this pm!

Watching a female Brimstone egg-laying on a young Buckthorn tree this afternoon
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Can you spot the egg newly-laid by this Brimstone on the buckthorn in my garden at lunchtime today? David James Beds and Northants BC Butterfly Conservation 🦋

So many Orangetips today Beds and Northants BC

Best wildlife day 😊☀️🌱🌼Beds and Northants BC

Seemed to see a lot of Orange Tip Butterflies again at Salcey Forest this morning, also some of Brimstone, Peacock, and Green-Veined White. In the afternoon good it was to see one each of Peacock, Orange Tip, and Brimstone at Delapre Abbey Garden Beds and Northants BC Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Male Brimstone in my garden today camouflaged well in its regular resting place on the choisya. David James Beds and Northants BC Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Beds and Northants BC David James Holly Blue and Peacock in the garden by 10.30 this morning. Things are looking up.

A pleasant walk around in Salcey Forest with lots of Garlic Mustard and the Orange-tips the most common butterfly species at the moment
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Holly Blue feeding on blue alkanet, Fermyn Woods Country Park today. David James Beds and Northants BC

You can't beat a bit of data analysis to while away a rainy day! Today I've made up charts to show the first sightings of almost every butterfly species we are lucky enough to have here in Northamptonshire. You can find the charts here on my website -
northantsbutterflies.com/annual-first-s…

A few from yesterday's visit to Mantles Heath. Along the footpath beside the wood,Peacock and Green Veined White butterflies,St.Mark's Fly on a dying brassica in the arable field that has been 'spayed off' and a Chaffinch. Beds and Northants BC The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants

** FIELD TRIPS **
A reminder of our upcoming butterfly field trips in Beds and Northants:
butterfly-conservation.org/events?field_b…
Our first one is at Fermyn Country Park, Northants on Sunday 12th May - target species including the Green Hairstreak
Beds and Northants BC David James Douglas Goddard

Singing Blackcap,Treecreeper,peak Bluebell time and a Green Veined White #butterfly #Springtime Woodland Trust🌳 Everdon Stubbs #Northamptonshire . Noticing Nature: the British microseason project Beds and Northants BC No Marsh Tit though....

Male Holly Blue in Abington Park this morning, one of four seen. David James Beds and Northants BC

UK Butterflies Lancs Butterfly Conservation Cumbria Butterfly Conservation Beds and Northants BC A lemony Green-Veined White waking up after a freezing night in our garden!

A male Orange-tip on bluebell in Yardley Chase with the conservation group this morning. David James Beds and Northants BC Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Orange-tips camouflaging on Garlic Mustard in Salcey Forest 🌳
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Familiar w/ Dingy & Grizzled Skipper or Wood White? Can you donate a couple of hours to survey a Rockingham Forest or South Northants #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme wood this May-June? If so, DM me or email [email protected]! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Beds and Northants BC