The prospect of a warm and sunny spring day encouraged me to visit a few of my favourite locations on the Island.First stop the National Tr...

A good selection of butterflies today at my local copse,all enjoying the spring flowers.Very belatedly I have seen an Orange Tip for the fi...

Following several days of gale force winds along our Island coast,today we had just a lively breeze with plenty of sunshine.An ideal opport...

The first adult Glanville Fritillary butterfly of 2015 was seen on the Isle of Wight yesterday, the 4th May and hopefully during this month...

Now that May is here new species are appearing at a fast rate and today at Whiteways a Brown Argus made a first showing.

The Dingy Skipper is our second spring skipper and I saw this one at Whiteways today.It is often seen in the company of the Grizzled Skippe...

New species seem to be emerging at a fast rate now as the warm weather continues.A visit to Whiteways this afternoon produced several Green...

The sunny weather is still here and a visit to Wheelers Bay was a must today.The brisk breeze of the morning abated in the afternoon warm...

Despite a stiff wind today the sun was shining and another new species was added to my springtime list at Whiteways Quarry.A pristine S...

After the emergence of the first Grizzled Skipper at Whiteways last Tuesday,today it was the turn of the Green Hairstreak to make its appear...

Temperatures rose to their highest of the year so far today and a visit to Wheelers Bay at Bonchurch resulted in two Clouded Yellow butterf...

Once most of the lingering sea mist and fog had dispersed today I made a visit to Whiteways Quarry overlooking Freshwater Bay which is an ...

I must say that my spring sightings of newly emerged butterflies have been poor so far with just a couple of Small Whites to date.However a...