Well, what a day! Still can't believe it but found a Silver wash fritillary ' valezina' flapping around trying to get out of the window in the front room this afternoon!!. Actually my grandaughter found it and I was so surprised and desperate to let it go that I didn't even get a photo. :( . Have no...

Such great photos Pete :) . Clive and I have spent the last couple of weekends exploring the Forest as we only visited for the first time last year (on several occasions) and are no where near as familiar with it as you but already know it will be one of our ' hot spots' . We felt lucky seeing our f...

Sandra and Kevin,

Lovely to meet you too and it really was a sight to see so many Small Pearl Bordered. Hope to meet you again somewhere in your travels , until then Happy Butterflying.
Shirley

Glad you found him and photos as well. Happy Butterflying.
Shirley

We made a visit to Stockbridge Down today and were pleased to see so many Grizzled Skippers! a record number for us along with Common Blue, Small Heath,Brown Argus and Small Copper. It was also good to see the Dingy Skipper and Green Hairstreak not forgetting the Brimstone, Green Veined White,Orange...

No problems Gruditch :) , in fact this is turning out like a 'Miss Marples' mystery :lol: . Wurzel, as Gruditch says when you do see one it will definately be worth the wait, now Eastern Clearing narrows it down quite a bit due to the size of Bentley Wood and so just tread carefully and keep looking...

Today we decided to go to Bentley Wood Eastern Clearing, with the hope of being a bit sheltered from the wind but how wrong we were!! hopeless for photography but still had a good day as we manged to see 11 species. The highlight was the Duke of Burgundy (2) basking in the sun which although we had ...

Clive and I had a lovely day yesterday at the Photographic Workshop and it was good to meet people from the forum who until then were just a name and a lovely friendly bunch they were too. Although I am far from a photographer I learnt a lot about different aspects but still think my main role is sp...

Clive and I have just spent a lovely week in Dorset and with the hope of seeing a Clouded Yellow. Well, very pleased to say we were not disappointed and saw one on the coast path from Charmouth to Stonebarrow. Brief as it was and Clive only managed a couple of shots (still trying to persuade him to ...

I know this is a VERY late reply but thanks for the advice and today in the sunshine our winter visitor woke up and flew off!!! Good to see it survived the winter and just hope it can survive now it has faced the big world again.
Thanks again
Shirley

Hi Denise,
Thank you very much for your help. I did what you said and have just let it go in the garden so hope it will find a nice hidey hole somewhere. Thanks again.
Shirley

Just found it again, flying around the landing and it is a small tortoiseshell and not a painted lady. Sorry I did say I was new but help would be appreciated as don't think it is going far!
Shirley

Hi, Still being relatively new to the Butterfly world please forgive me if the following sounds strange. About half an hour ago I went upstairs to draw the curtains and found a Painted Lady ! Not too sure who was most surprised and after a flutter around the bedroom it finally settled on our duvet. ...

Hi to you all, Hubby Clive and I have just joined this site and it looks really informative and friendly. We have always loved butterflies and seem to be out most weekends searching and getting better with our identifying (I hope) . Red Admirals seem a bit scarce around here though or maybe just not...