Hi Wurzel, I live in Cornwall & know Essex Buzzard anyway......Small Pearls are fairly common still here in Cornwall especially round the coast! The should start emerging in about maybe 10 days time & then keep going until 2nd week of June. There are many places to see them in Cornwall. Try...

Hi Mark mate........Can't believe how nice your photographs are! Superb! Just to let you know that I have been blocked from posting on our CBC forum for trying to promote recording of Pearl-Bordered Fritillaries at Bunny's Hill!! I can't therefore reply to your posting on that forum! The 2 people t...

We had 48 sightings of about 30 different Pearl-bordered Frits at Murrayton nr. Looe this afternoon(19th April)!! 1 of the female Pearls was egglaying too....1 egg on underside of Dog Violet leaf and 1 laid on underside of a Celedine leaf right next to a Dog Violet plant. Access to cliff path only ...

Hi Mark, Thank you very much for making the big effort to visit us all at our AGM in Cornwall today all the way from Essex!! Well done & look forward to seeing you again this summer on any of the fieldtrips I arrange for Cornwall Butterfly Conservation. Martin Warren was mighty impressed at you...

Great sunny day (Saturday 8th March, 2014) here in south Cornwall......Spring is here!! Saw 1 x Red Admiral at Tregonissey (St Austell), 1 x Red Admiral flying in Bridge Street, St Blazey.........Prideaux/Luxulyan (near fishing lakes in Prideaux Road) 1 x Small Tortoiseshell, 2 x Commas, 3 x Peacoc...

Another fantastic set of trips there Lee,going right into September to extend the Cornish season! Hopefully i can attend some-probably no Long-tailed Blues though! Cheers. 8) Hi Mark, Thanks for your positive feedback mate! As always look forward to your company on any of the trips I arrange. Still...

ALL WELCOME AT ANY OF OUR FIELDTRIPS/MEETINGS. FREE OF CHARGE!! :D :D :D :D Cheers......Lee Slaughter (Fieldtrip Organiser), Cornwall Butterfly Conservation (BC Cornwall Branch). Cornwall Butterfly Conservation Butterfly Field Meetings 2014. Compiled by Lee Slaughter (Field Trip Organiser) since 19...

Hi Pete, I'm sure with the vast number of UK butterflies members that a few will recheck these & other localities out to try & discover the species in Ireland!! Would be a great discovery. Well done Pete for bringing this to our attention. I always wondered about this species being in prett...

Angle Shades or Silver 'Y' ?? Just a hunch as I had these larvae in my greenhouse on Geraniums in Cornwall earlier last year!
Cheers,
Lee Slaughter (Cornwall).

I also have a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly hibernating in my garage right next to a similarly hibernating Herald Moth! Only time I've seen a butterfly alive on 1st January even though it is hibernating.
I'm at Par in Cornwall.
Cheers,
Lee Slaughter.

I was lucky enough to see Heath Fritillaries on several occasions this year,but perhaps my favorite image was from early June when i joined Lee Slaughter and members of Cornwall Butterfly Comservation,for the field trip to Greenscombe Woods,Lucket. This was a balmy summers day,after the rotten spri...

Clouded Yellows do from time to time overwinter down here in 'mild' Cornwall especially at Seaton (near Looe). One seen yesterday (30th November) still going strong & 3 Red Admirals there too on same visit by Leon Truscott from Torpoint (Cornwall's Moth recorder). I did report this on November ...

A Cornwall Butterfly Conservation member & Cornwall Moth recorder, Leon Truscott saw "A Clouded Yellow and 3 Red Admirals at Seaton today. (Also 2 Common Darter dragonflies in the nearby Seaton Valley.)" It has been sunny all day here in Cornwall but working in my garden this afternoo...