Thank you, Susie - yes, a splendid week, really.
Today was warm, but mostly cloudy. I was free in the afternoon, and not too far away, so I had a walk around the Botany Bay end of the woods at Chiddingfold. Despite a few bursts of sun, I saw not a single butterfly. The only thing was to return home and see if that was any better. It was: within a few metres of the start of the walk, I had seen a Speckled Wood, a Holly Blue, a Green-veined White, a Peacock and a Comma. As I walked, the sun started to break through a little and it became quite muggy. I saw five or six more Green-veined Whites, a couple of Orange Tips (includng one basking way up in a hawthorn tree), two more Holly Blues, and more Peacocks and Commas. I also saw another first for the year, a male Large White which I disturbed nectaring on a dandelion. It didn't forgive me, and I didn't manage a photo.
I managed to find another Orange Tip egg, much more orange than yesterday's two, in an adjacent clump of Cuckoo Flower. Close to the spot is a stand of Garlic Mustard, sheltered by trees, but quite open to sunlight. Peering carefully at the flowerheads, I suddenly resolved two of the clusters of buds into a pair of roosting Orange Tips.
Dave