Whilst still very sunny today (March 11th) up here in the East Midlands a brisk North Easterly breeze made it feel cooler and kept the temperatures down. A short lunchtime walk around Attenborough NR only produced a couple of Small Tortoiseshell and a single Peacock, I was hoping to find more butter...

Thanks for all the encouragement...I'm up in Notts...a little too far North to be ideal...so it'll be a challenge indeed to "mop up"

The FZ38 looks a good recommendation...
I'll probably take the flea bay route for a camera so £100 - £150 second hand is my budget...

Looking to purchase a Camera for Butterfly Photography this year... (Its time I upgrade my old digi-scoping workhouse - a venerable Coolpix995) Don't want to spend a fortune so was thinking of a now superseded model... Probably some kind of "Bridge" Camera Does anyone have any recommendati...

Hello to everyone on the forum...first post! As seems to be all the rage at the moment...courtesy perhaps of Patrick Barkham's "The Butterfly Isles" I'm going to have a try at seeing all of the British Isles Butterflies in 2014...influenced heavily by the fact that I'm far more likely to p...