The road from Nydri to the hillside village of Paliokatuna on the Greek Island of Lefkada is about 3kms.This quiet road passes olive groves...

It is at this time of the year that I look forward to my first visit to the Greek Islands.The island of Lefkada in the Ionian Islands is al...

The Adonis Blue is the latest 'blue' to appear this year and without doubt the most magnificent.The male is splendid with its vivid...

The south facing slopes of Bonchurch Down look out over the English Channel.The Down is well known for the Adonis Blue Butterfly as well as...

Following a report of Small Blues now on the wing, a visit to a favourite location discovered three individuals.A mating pair was observed ...

Following a brief glimpse of a Grizzled Skipper at Afton Down yesterday in the late afternoon,I made an earlier visit to Whiteways this mor...

A walk in the countryside today saw an array of spring butterflies.The only first of the year new species was a Large White seen feeding on...

Another butterfly species joined the growing number of Green Hairstreaks at Whiteways today.After a morning of torrential rain and strong w...

A  favoured site for spring emergent butterflies produced its first residents this morning.Following several days of very cool and unsettle...

A few days of high summer weather is coming to an end and this coming week will see more normal spring temperatures.However for this mornin...

It was shirt sleeve weather today with temperatures topping 23 degrees celcius.At Walters Copse the trees and saplings are bursting into gr...