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Hello,

13 February 2008
A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly was seen flying about my mother’s garden in Hawkins Close, Shoreham by Sea, in the early afternoon in good sunshine. This was the first local record of this species for 2008 and the first ever for the month of February, making five species seen locally in the second month of the year.

Report by Christine Burgess on Sussex Butterflies

http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/sightings.html

Adur Butterfly Flight Times
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterflies1X2007.htm

First Adur Butterfly Dates 2003 to 2008
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/ButterfliesFFT.htm

11 February 2008
A male Brimstone Butterfly settled on ivy on wall outside house in Mill Hill Drive, Shoreham at midday. This was the first local record of this species for 2008.

Report by Stanley Allen on Sussex Butterflies

10 February 2008
The first Peacock Butterfly of the year was seen in a sunny Lancing garden in the morning.
Report by Ray Hamblett on the UK-Leps (Yahoo Group)

Around midday a Peacock Butterfly rose from the lower slopes of Mill Hill and fluttered further up the slope so I had to chase it to identify the good condition Peacock Butterfly when it basked briefly in the weak sunshine with its wings open.
These two are the first February records on these Nature Notes pages for the Peacock Butterfly, making four species seen locally in the second month of the year.


3 February 2008
Was it a leaf blowing in the gales, or was it a butterfly over the Norfolk Bridge end of Ropetackle. I think it was a Red Admiral but I could not be sure. It flew away too quickly, upwards, and it looked like settling on a wharfeside lamp, but it flew over the River Adur.

Adur Butterfly & Large Moth List
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterfly-list2008.html

Cheers

Andy Horton
glaucus@hotmail.com
Adur Valley Nature Notes
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2007.html
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2008.html
Adur Valley Nature Notes: February 2008
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Feb2008.html

Adur Valley & Downs Gallery
http://www.flickr.com/groups/adur/pool/

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Vice County Map
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Recording/vcmappage.htm

Hello,

Addenda:

26 February 2008
A Small White Butterfly was seen in Lancing. This was the first report of a Small White Butterfly on these Nature Notes pages for the month of February, nowmaking it six species seen locally in the second month of the year since the start of the new millennium.

Report by Katherine Hamblett on the UK-Leps (Yahoo Group)


Adur Butterfly Flight Times
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterflies1X2007.htm

First Adur Butterfly Dates 2003 to 2008
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/ButterfliesFFT.htm

Adur Butterfly & Large Moth List
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Butterfly-list2008.html

Cheers

Andy Horton
glaucus@hotmail.com
Adur Valley Nature Notes
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2007.html
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Adur2008.html