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Update no 42 as at the 1st of October 2022 – including late September 2022 sightings in the County
First of all a big thank you to the 350 or so volunteers who carry out butterfly transects in the County – it has been another difficult year after the covid epidemic, but this time mainly due to the changing weather – who would have thought that we would have reached...
Update no 41 as at the 26th of September 2022 – including further Wall Brown sightings in the County
Now that the Autumnal Equinox has passed we are now facing 6 months of longer and colder nights, which have already started, but at least the reservoirs will start to fill up again once the Atlantic starts to throw its weather fronts at us. Despite this scenario, many...
Update no 40 as at the 18th of September 2022 – including more Wall Brown sightings in the County
Despite the fact that the Autumnal Equinox will soon be upon us, the weather during the last week has been quite benign with most days having a decent amount of sunshine on offer, although the last few days have had a somewhat cool N W airflow which didn’t help our...
Update no 39 as at the 10th of September 2022 – including more third brood Wall Browns seen in the County
Although the weather patterns have changed during this last week, whereby heavy thundery showers are the ‘norm’ particularly in the afternoons, at least when the sun comes out, the temperature remains relatively high, so that butterflies have been seen on most...
Update no 38 as at the 4th of September 2022 – including third brood Wall Browns seen in the County
Hello Everyone, According to the Met Office, Autumn has arrived and after the hot summer of 2022 it now looks like the Atlantic will start throwing weather fronts at us which will hopefully start to fill up the reservoirs ( as at the 29th of August 2022, Howden is...
Update no 37 as at the 27th of August 2022 – including additional Clouded Yellow sightings in the County.
Hello Everyone, With the flowering fronds of the buddleia bushes coming to an end in most gardens, Nick Brown of the D W T has over recent years managed to attract some butterfly species to his garden as a result of his concoction of mashed fruit on a dish on a table...