Well done for submitting this image, Sam, (albeit late in the year), which you took when we were looking (successfully!) for puffins at Fowlsheugh early in the 2018 season. At this location, and on this date, it will undoubtedly be a spring brood Thomsoni subspecies which, following Vince's editing,...

I started this thread in 2013 when I saw a painted lady in Aberdeen in late July - earlier than the usual sightings I had noted in September. I reported a similar single sighting almost exactly one year later 15 miles further north. Yesterday, I was interested to see a single painted lady (no chance...

Almost exactly a year since my initial posting, I saw another July Painted Lady - this time at Forvie Sands Nature Reserve about 15 miles north of Aberdeen - earlier today. Just as at the time of last year's July sighting within Aberdeen, we had had several days of easterly breezes and I wondered wh...

Note posting in August Sightings by IAC (6th Aug) reporting Painted Ladies on Berwickshire Coast in past week. I have not yet seen or heard of any more in Grampian since 27th July.

I saw a single painted lady on knapweed by the estuary of the River Don in Aberdeen (57+N) yesterday. From my 'increasingly interested amateur' status, I do not think I have seen this species locally this early in the season before and searching entries to date for June and July sightings on UKB, I ...

I found this very unusual butterfly last weekend, near the coast at Forvie Sands Nature Reserve just north of Aberdeen, where the usual seasonal flight of dark green fritillaries was in evidence. It was behaving very like a DGF and my suspicions were supported by a similarly marked butterfly in the ...