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May I wish you all a Happy and Productive New Year!

January is the toughest month to record butterfly sightings, so best of luck to those fortunate enough to have even an outside chance!

Hello all,wishing everybody a happy and healthy new year,
This morning my Brother in law phoned to tell me ,that yesterday in bright ,sunny weather he saw a Small Tortoisehell ,flying around and basking in a back garden in Cranbrook (Kent),no butterflies this year for me yet, but was really pleased to find 3 Waxwings,just across the road from me,my first for a couple of years !. we also had our first snow of the winter,starting around 6.30 pm yesterday........ weird weather ! regards Allan.W.

Spotted a red admiral in central Portsmouth with temperature about 8c it must have been woken by a period of warm sun but was fluttering around the eaves of a railway station looking for a spot to see out the rest of the winter - first of the year
Kind regards
Mark

A colleague saw a Peacock two days ago when she was out for a walk at lunchtime along the River Tyne in Haddington. I hope it managed to find something to feed on.

And a report of our first Small Tortoiseshell of the season for East Lothian, flying at the coast near Tyninghame.

A friend of mine saw a Red Admiral in the centre of Tunbridge Wells in Kent on Tuesday and sent me a picture to prove it.

I am a little jealous; I have never seen a wild butterfly during the four months of November to February!

Still, a nice record.

Best wishes,

Lee

For those of us who are feeling downcast by the cold and wintry weather I have uploaded a couple of short Glanville fritillary videos from last year to http://www.flickr.com/photos/lepreskil
They are MP4 files and I seemed to have difficulty loading them to the ukbutterflies site.
I hope you enjoy them.