Dear Sussex Kipper So pleased you saw my LTs. Several people have visited the Transect since my first sighting on 7.3.2011 and have not seen any. As I have sightings at this location in March or April in 2006, 2008, 2009 and this year, I am confident that there is a small colony close by. Andy Butle...

Three large Tortoishell seen by me at Woodhouse Copse, Whippingham, Isle of Wight on 7.3.11 I have had previous sightings at this location in 2006, 2007 and 2008, but this is the earliest date I have seen them Two other observers saw a singleton on 14.3.11 and 17.3.11 Altough I have looked almost da...

Dear All I have just returned from the Tarn area of France, just north of Albi and the Painted Lady was everywhere. On 16th May the migration northward really took off and I counted over 6,000 an hour coming from the south and squeezing between a 50ft gap in a line of trees. They were flying at betw...

Hi all Having been the transect recorder for Woodhouse Copse for the last ten years I can advise my first sighting of a LT at this site was 22.4.06. On 27.3.08 another was seen for three days. My first sighting this year was on 19.3.09. All of these sightings have been within two hundred yards of on...