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A tatty and forlorn peacock seen in the old Bathampton Quarry today - but my first butterfly of the year so a very welcome sight.

Simon C

A Peacock at Church Norton, Pagham.

1 Peacock at Farndale, North Yorks and another at Skipwith Common.

1, perhaps 2 Peacocks, 2+ male Brimstones, something white fluttering in the distance (probably female Brimstone) and a bee-fly on the slopes above Claverton (Bath) this afternoon.

Things are definitely starting to happen! On my travels around Harrogate today I clocked 3 peacocks and a magnificent brimstone fluttering around the walls of a building close to the town centre.

2 Peacocks west end of Carlisle this afternoon.
Ian

One peacock at Mountstewart today. Nice sight seeing it on Wind blossom.

A suspected peacock seen browsing blackthorn blossom high up at Willsbridge local widllife park today. I took a telephoto shot and checked the camera screen and it's a definite.
Brimstone males are now regularly patrolling the woodland paths of the reserve.
Two days ago, I counted six commas in one south facing slope that is overgrown with bramble. They were regularly seeing off other insects, usually brimstones, but a white tailed bumblebee didn't offer much resisitance either.
Where have all the orange tailed bumblebees gone?

At Ffordd y Wagen, Pwll, Llanelli a disused railway track from the industrial era on March 31st were 10+ Peacock, 2 Brimstone, 6 Comma, 7 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Small White and a Speckled Wood. The track has a micro climate, it is sheltered and produces the goods even in the current cold winds.

In the meadow today were 9 Peacocks, 3 Small Tortoiseshell & further down the village the other half saw countless male Brimstones a female Brimstone and his first Orange Tip of the year!

32 Peacocks seen today, on field-margins, admittedly managed for wildlife but not especially butterfly-friendly I would have thought. This is almost a third of the total I recorded for the whole of 2006. What is going on?

I have no idea. I haven't seen quite that many but there are still lots of peacocks around. Today I saw two male orange tips, half a dozen speckled wood, four small white, five peacock, around the same brimstone, a couple of commas and a small tortoiseshell.
Here's a small tort I snapped on Friday in South Wales: