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Update no 1 as at the 2nd of January 2025 – including Christmas 2024 Butterfly Sightings!
Hello Everyone, A Happy and Healthy New Year to all the 1760 recipients of this Update - it really does feel like Winter now with a cold north wind and overnight frosts, even here in Derby, and the treat of snow over the hills in the Peak District this weekend....
Update no 49 as at the 17th of December 2024 – including late 2024 butterfly sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, With very little sunshine to enjoy during the last week, it came as a pleasant surprise for Mark Longdon when on the 14th of December 2024 whilst he was hanging up his Christmas decorations outside his Ripley house, a Red Admiral flew by him as it...
Update no 48 as at the 9th of December 2024 – including some December 2024 butterfly sightings
Hello Everyone, Now that Storm Darragh has slipped into the Continent after doing its worst for us here in the UK, hopefully we should now get some quiet days with the possibility of some sun although with only 8 hours of daylight available we can’t expect too many...
Update no 47 as at the 30th of November 2024 including Derbyshire Moth Report for 2019 – 2023
Hello Everyone, After the snow and icy winds of the third week of November 2024, it came as some relief to get warmer westerly winds following on despite some very wet days leading up towards the end of the month courtesy of Storm ‘Bert’ The poor weather on Sunday the...
Update no 46 as at the 19th of November 2024 – including more butterfly sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, With November 2024 having temperatures above normal, it has come somewhat as a shock this week to wake up to ground frosts and a covering of snow in the County - not before additional butterfly sightings of 4 species were made before the thermometer...
Update no 45 as at the 12th of November 2024 – including more butterfly sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, With grey concrete coloured skies across the County since the 29th of October 2024, it was a nice surprise to get sightings of the Red Admiral in Derbyshire on the 10th of November 2024 during a small period of hazy sunshine. First of all Martin Hall...