Butterfly bounty: a hot, sunny day at Brockadale
It’s a sight to stop you in your tracks – dozens of butterflies clustered in one spot. I watch, fascinated, as they flutter and feed together. But these green-veined whites haven’t been attracted…
It’s a sight to stop you in your tracks – dozens of butterflies clustered in one spot. I watch, fascinated, as they flutter and feed together. But these green-veined whites haven’t been attracted…
They’ve been laughing at me all day. I first heard them within a few minutes of arriving at Barlow Common at 8.30am on this dazzlingly bright spring morning, and their raucous “yaffle” calls have…
Insects are a lot less obvious in winter. It’s a tough time to be active, with cold weather, storms and a shortage of food. Butterflies mostly disappear, popping up again as spring approaches and…
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust were very excited in mid-July to record the discovery of the first white-letter hairstreak butterfly at Spurn!
I’ve been at Ledsham Bank an hour already and I’ve only managed to walk a couple of hundred metres from the entrance. The problem is there’s so much to see, so much to photograph.
Amidst a summer riot of colour, the star turn at our Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit nature reserve is actually black and white – but it’s a real beauty! Find marbled whites and more in this former chalk…