First butterfly this year: Small White on Sunday 20th March – Bulwell Forest Golf Club. I was in the car on my way to TESCO.
First butterfly on the farm: Peacock and Brimstone – both spotted by Julia on Friday 1st April during a farm walk.
I saw a Peacock this morning too.
I’m very bad at recording things but I do know Peacocks are the first butterflies we normally see and that I took a picture of one on a crocus last year, indicating that it was a month earlier than this sighting, though last year was warmer and I’d actually seen a Small Tortoiseshell in Peterborough the day before the Peacock on the farm.
Sorry about the poor photo of the Brimstone – we don’t see them often and I don’t always have my camera with me when we do see them.