Yes, very early i believe

Making the most of some sun, we made the hour and a half trip to Devil's Dyke Cambridgeshire this morning. Well worth it again to see 60 plus Chalk Hill Blue, good numbers of Marbled White and a couple Dark Green Fritillary. Also seen Small and Essex Skippers, Small Heath, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, ...

A trip to Rendlesham Forest in sunny but windy conditions give us our 1st Graying on the wing. On the other side of the forest at Upper Hollesley Common we managed to find 8 Silver-Studded Blues after an extensive search, was hoping for more. Good to see a few 2nd brood of Small Copper about. Of not...

A lunchtime wander around @EssexWildlife #greathollandpits today. 19 species on the wing. 16 WLH, 14 WA, 1 PE and various No's of SS, LS, SC, SH, C, RA, R, MB, SW, LW, SpW, B, GVW, CB, BA, HB Highlight was the amount of White Letter Hairstreak , White Admiral and of course finding the Purple Emperor...

An hour wander around the Silver-washed Fritillary area of Stour Wood , Wrabness this lunchtime found 4 on the wing along with White Admiral.

Thanks Sarah, so similar time of year then. Hope you gound some Swallowtail , we had a hard time finding some last year. Got some on 2nd visit.

Thanks, will have to do a little research into oak apple gulls.
There was still plenty of other nectar sources around.

Out walking around field margin behind our cottage this afternoon in North East Essex, once rain had stopped and sun was out I came across a few Red Admirals feed on Oak Apple Galls. Has this been noticed much before? New one on me.

Was lucky enough to find 3 on a trip to Strumpshaw Fen on the 16th June 2023. 2 in the Doctors Garden and 1 on the path through the Fen.
This was a return visit, first was with Greenwings, weather was very cold and wet a few weeks earlier. Nothing was on the wing

The find of the 2023 for me..... A Small Blue found on the 29th July at Essex Wildlife Trust The Naze , Walton. Only other recent Essex records were July 2021, 2020 and 2019, all males, believed to been blown across from Kents North Downs. For a butterfly that is not known for travelling any distanc...

First butterfly for us yesterday, a very nice male Brimstone at Essex Wildlife Trust The Naze. We only managed to record 1 Brimstone at this site all last year.

25th September and looking pass their best

Hi Phil, truly an amazing project you have got there. Plenty of info i can gain form you wonderful website. We are in the process of buying a little cottage with about 1/2 an acre of land on the outskirts of rural village in north east Essex (been living on a yacht for 5 years). Its been my dream to...

Hi, I'm from North East Essex and for the last month me and the wife have been out searching for a Clouded Yellow which has been seen locally. Got a fleeting glimpse of one a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday we were lucky enough to find 3 in the same area and got some photo's. New member here and firs...