I saw this lovely short video on the BBC website the other day… take a look, it’s beautiful!
And a couple of other links too:
BBC Nature: Butterflies Bounce Back
BBC Nature: Bill Oddie and an English Meadow
I saw this lovely short video on the BBC website the other day… take a look, it’s beautiful!
And a couple of other links too:
BBC Nature: Butterflies Bounce Back
BBC Nature: Bill Oddie and an English Meadow
Words and Herbs 
Not yet here either, no butterflies yet! 🙂
Plenty of time! 😉
Thanks for the links. No butterfly sightings yet but several weeks ago I did attend a great presentation about butterflies native to my state of North Carolina. Hope to try to learn to recognize more of them.
That must have been an enjoyable talk. I didn’t see so many last year, but hope the butterfly book I bought will come into use this summer. It’s so difficult to determine them when they don’t sit still! 😉
Yes, I’ve already seen quite a few butterflies in the garden on warm sunny days. Thanks for the link, you’re right it is beautiful.
And I saw a Hummingbird Hawkmoth on your blog today too – how wonderful Christina!
One flew by a couple of weeks ago, it was so quick and I was so surprised, I couldn’t make out which variety it was, it looked very dark. Just the other day while photographing snowdrops, there were a couple of bees enjoying some nectar. Thanks for the link, they were all beautiful!
I haven’t even seen any bees yet either, but just as well as there’s nothing flowering for them at the moment.
What a lovely way to start the day! I have only seen moths – no butterflies yet.
I shall keep returning to that video in the next few weeks to get me in the mood for spring! 😉
We always see the overwintering butterflies and because of the very mild weather we have seen many more than usual of Red Admirals and Peacocks this year.
And despite the rain and wind too… you must be in a sheltered spot. 😀
I’ve not spotted any here yet, but isn’t it good news about the way they bounced back last year. Hope we have another good summer.
It was a little different in Germany as we had torrential rain and floods for several weeks in May/June last year and that seemed to reduce the variety we saw in this area… so hoping for a better mix this year!
A few drunken ones which ventured out far too early, and two days ago I saw a violet carpenter bee. Thanks for sharing – great stuff!
I have been looking out for bees, as the first crocuses are opening, but none sighted yet. However, the pussy willow is in bud and we usually get lots on that when it flowers! 😀
This is a lovely post and great link, we had a great year for Butterflies last year with a long warm summer, the previous year of constant rain was a disaster though. The Butterfly conservation society encourages sitings to be recorded and I see there has already been a few sitings in my area, Peacocks, Brimstones, Red Admirals and small tortoiseshells. Hopefully warmer days will see more. 🙂
I think there should be a butterfly count in the same style as the bird counts every year….The tortoiseshells are usually the first I see here too.
Two years ago it was AMAZING last year not so much 😦 It should be a lush green landscape here so maybe they will return 🙂
Hope you gets lots of them as well
Have a great weekend!
Thanks Eunice – you too! Hope you don’t get any more snow for a while!
We have snow and ice coming tonight but warmer temps for the rest of the weekend so it can stay where it falls I need the beach or a mountain stream 🙂 Have an awesome weekend Cathy.
In early January I´ve seen a Brimstone (Zitronenfalter), which is a species that overwinters and has a lifetime of one year! Great slow-motion-Video!
It’s nice to see them in slow motion as most of them are far too fast to photograph – especially the Zitronenfalter which always seems to close its wings when it settles!
Not yet Cathy and hope that they do not take flight for a little while longer. Thanks for the links – will return to explore them soon 🙂
Yes, still too cold and not enough food for them. Enjoy the clips Anna. 😀
I hope we will see plenty in a few months – last year there didn’t seem to be as many as usual. Fingers crossed!
Same here Sheryl. It seems the UK had a good summer last year, but numbers fell here in Germany after all our rain last May.
Nothing here yet 😉 though I did see a moth in the garage while cleaning last week.
I found a dead butterfly in our garage… probably woke up too early. 😦
Lovely but too early here too…April is earliest I have seen any here
I saw the first one yesterday – too much of a surprise to notice what type it was though!