Sorry to dampen the spirits but the weather this morning in South Cornwall (St Austell Bay) is cool/rainy/wet & thundery. Unless the sun comes out then not huge hopes for seeing butterflies. I hope the weather will brighten up this afternoon. Good luck to anyone making the trip! Cheers, Lee Sla...

4th October, 2014................"Monarch butterfly this afternoon on The Lizard at Housel Bay."
5th October, 2014................"Monarch butterfly at Porthgwarra this morning".

Reported on Atropos Flight Arrivals.

Best of luck folks!

Cheers,

Lee Slaughter (Cornwall).

Hi Lee, Well done with the European Swallowtail,a great find! seems you,ve had a good season,what with that and the gynandromorph Silver Stud,what a fantastic insect,I,ve had a pretty good one myself,adding a couple of lifers (Brown hair,and Purple emperor +Small Copper "Radiata"), I met ...

Hi all, BirdGuides reports two sightings of Monarch on the Isles of Scilly early this afternoon. Lee Slaughter and other West Country enthusiasts are hereby put on Red Alert. BWs, Neil Thanks very much Neil! Will keep an eye out & let Neil & other UK Butterfly members know if one appears in...

Delighted you have a rewarding holiday down here in sunny Cornwall last week. You were really lucky with the weather Neil. The best abundance spike/mass emergence of butterflies I ever had over the past 40 years of butterfly study & watching was a good friend of mine (Barry Ofield) who's now 82...

Well done Lee, and of course Robert. I bet you were relieved when it flew back for pictures to prove to everyone one else that you hadn't been snacking on wild mushrooms :wink: Great picture too :) I will be heading down to Cornwall on Friday, for a week near Helston. I am hoping to see Clouded Yel...

Hi Mark, Yep....He is well pleased with himself & I doubt I would have seen it! The visit was until then a failure in that we didn't see the Brown Hairstreak so we were literally walking back to our car when it was seen flying across the field into the corner where we saw it! Was so pleased to ...

The usual brilliance of Mark's photos is something I always look forward to! That shot of the SS Skipper on Gentian is superb!! Keep up the good work Mark! Did you see I posted about the European Swallowtail in South Devon recently? My 10 year old son, Robert found it!! Cheers, Lee Slaughter (Cornw...

Well folks........A huge turn up for the books today!! We saw something we never thought we'd ever find in Britain!! We all visited a site in South Devon to look for a Brown Hairstreak butterfly. After 60 minutes we had no sign at all and it was time to take our sons, Robert & Michael to their ...

Try the Hardknott Pass......Park in visitor centre of Slate Quarry I think Lee might mean Honister Pass instead of Hardknott Pass. At least that's where I saw them a couple of years ago. Cheers John Errrrrr.....Sorry...I did mean Honister Pass! I'm sure they will be finished at Irton Fell but am pr...

Hi Mark, I visited Arnside Knott on Monday 7th July with my 10 year old son, Robert and like you had no success with photographing anything as everything had new Duracell batteries in & were flying at speed without stopping. Ticks were everywhere too!! I would think from your photo that it IS a...

Try the Honister Pass......Park in visitor centre of Slate Quarry and walk up behind it on the footpath (bit steep to begin with) and eventually you'll come to a ruined engine house after 1KM or so but then turn left on an obvious footpath where it will only go uphill gradually and you will start t...

Heath Fritillaries and your photography brilliant as usual mate!! We had over 70+ Heath Frits on our fieldtrip at Greenscoome Woods, Luckett on Saturday 7th June!
Cheers,
Lee Slaughter.

URGENT REMINDER OF FIELDTRIP THIS SATURDAY 7TH JUNE, 2014 Saturday 7th June – 1:00pm – Greenscoombe Woods, Luckett, East Cornwall. Organised by Cornwall Butterfly Conservation for both Cornwall Butterfly Conservation and for Cornwall Wildlife Trust One of Britain’s rarest butterflies, the Heath Fri...