Beds and Northants branch of Butterfly Conservation

Bedfordshire Butterfly Recording & Sightings

Bedfordshire Butterfly Report for 2018

NEW. Draft 2018 butterfly report to be published in the BNHS Bedfordshire Naturalist 2018.

Bedfordshire Atlas 1990-2017

Read more about Bedfordshire's butterflies at www.bedsbutterflies.org.uk.

Live Adnoto Atlas 2015-2019

A live atlas of Adnoto records for the current 2015-2019 recording period can be found HERE. Although this is currently running off unverified data (so a few records may not be correct) the absence of a record for a 1km square is a definite absence of a record, so please try to fill in the gaps near you during this five year period. Records submitted via other means won't of course show as this is running off the Adnoto database - another reason to use this for submitting records. Thanks, Keith

Submitting Records

Important: An observation reported on a social medium such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo, YouTube, blogs, etc. or entered into an online recording system such as Living Record, WildWalks, etc. is most likely not going to be seen by the County Recorders and therefore will not result in a record in the Bedfordshire database or in the national database. It is impossible for us to monitor all these channels of information for records, even if we wished to spend all day in front of a computer trying to do so! Records entered into Big Butterfly Count are also unlikely to be used as the data quality in this survey is usually difficult to determine. Please therefore submit your records using one of the channels below only - thank you.

Bedfordshire butterfly sightings should be reported to Keith:

via Adnoto , or else
using the iRecord Butterflies app, or
using the iRecord website, or
on this spreadsheet, or
by email

Please DO NOT submit records by more than one route as this leads to duplicate records which have to be found and removed thus causing unnecessary work.

If you wish to submit records on paper please use this form and post to Peter.

Note that records entered into the iRecord Butterflies App and iRecord website will reach us only at the end of the season, as will records entered into the WCBS and UKBMS online systems, which are also acceptable for record submission for those special types of transect surveys. Records are not normally marked as accepted or rejected within iRecord itself but all valid records will be used.

If you have used an electronic recording system other than Adnoto or iRecord, such as Living Record, WildWalks, Recorder 6, MapMate, etc. then please extract the records yourselves and email them as a spreadsheet to Keith before the end of December.

Need a grid reference for a sighting? Grab one HERE.

First Flights

Here is Bedfordshire's 2019 first-flight table.

Monthly totals

To see monthly species totals thoughout the year click HERE March's totals added

Weekly reports

Weekly reports for every week of the year are being posted on Yahoo and Facebook.

Bedfordshire's 2019 Sightings

Reports (mostly gleaned via Adnoto) are summarized below. First flights are marked in red.

April 2019

24th:
1 Small Copper - Maulden Heath
1m Brimstone, 3 Green Hairstreak - Whipsnade Downs
3m Orange Tip, 3 Speckled Wood - Flitton moor

23rd:
1m Green-veined White - Sandy garden
1m Brimstone, 2m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Stewartby lake
1 Brimstone, 1 Large White - Stopsley garden
1 Brimstone, 1 Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Sundon Park Luton
2 Orange Tip - Luton, East Hyde NR

22nd:
3 Small Copper, 1 Holly Blue - Ampthill grassland
1 Orange Tip, 4 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Ampthill garden
2 Small/Green-veined White, 5m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 3 Peacock - Broom Gravel Pits, Gypsy Lane
1m Orange Tip, 3 Holly Blue, 1 Peacock - Back garden in Beeston
1m Orange Tip - Stopsley garden
1m Brimstone, 2 Large White, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Flitwick Wood
12 Brimstone, 2 Large White, 3 Small White, 2 Green-veined White, 5 Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 5 Speckled Wood - Sewell Cutting
2 Orange Tip, 6 Holly Blue, 2 Speckled Wood - Haynes Church
1 Small White, 5m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Peacock - Shocott Spring between Shortstown and Cotton End
3 Holly Blue - Bedford, Salcombe Close
2m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood - Rookery Pit North track by railway
1f Brimstone, 5m, 1f, 1 pair Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood - West of B530 at Stewartby
2m, 1f Brimstone, 2m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Peacock - Rookery Pit, around junction between north and south
3 Holly Blue - Sandy garden
1m, 1f Orange Tip, 3 Holly Blue - Bedford garden
1 Brimstone, 1 Large White, 10 Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 12 Speckled Wood, 2 Small Heath - Bridleway near Center parcs
1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Toddington, Park Hill

21st:
1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock - Gypsy lane east, Broom gravel pits.
3 Grizzled Skipper, 7m, 4f Brimstone, 3m, 1f Orange Tip, 8 Green Hairstreak, 3 Peacock - Whipsnade Downs - Bison Hill
2m, 2f Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Whipsnade Downs - between pylons
2m, 2f Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood - Totternhoe - Knolls View road
14m, 5f Brimstone, 1 Small White, 3m Orange Tip, 1 Duke of Burgundy, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Totternhoe Quarry
1m, 1f Orange Tip - Greenfield
2m Brimstone, 1 Small/Green-veined White, 2m Orange Tip, 3 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Millennium CP
3m, 1f Orange Tip - Wigmore Park CWS Luton
1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock - Wigmore Park CWS Luton
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Wigmore Park CWS Luton
1 Brimstone, 2m, 2f Orange Tip, 20+ Speckled Wood - Wigmore Park CWS Luton
1 Holly Blue - Wigmore, Luton.
1 Brimstone, 1 Holly Blue - Stopsley garden
1 Speckled Wood - Willington, footpath south of church
1 Green-veined White, 3m Orange Tip - Willington, next to Elstow Brook
1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Willington, next to Elstow Brook
2 Holly Blue - Bedford, Salcombe Close
1 Small Heath - Totternhoe
4m, 2f Brimstone, 4 Large White, 2 Small White, 3m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Sundon Chalk Pits NE
3m Brimstone, 1 Large White, 1 Small White, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Speckled Wood - Sundon Chalk Pits SW
1 Brimstone, 1m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Heath and Reach
2m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 5m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock - Stotfold Mill Meadow NR
2m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood - Etonbury Wood Stotfold
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 2 Speckled Wood - Fancott woods and meadows
1f Brimstone, 1m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Kempston, garden
1 Brimstone, 2 Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue - Meppershall garden
2m Brimstone, 1 Large White, 2 Small White, 9 Orange Tip, 7 Holly Blue, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Broom Gravel Pits
1m Orange Tip, 2 Speckled Wood - Opposite Tempsford Airfield

20th:
8m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Large White, 2 Green-veined White, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 12m, 2f Orange Tip, 1m Holly Blue, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock, 3 Comma, 13 Speckled Wood - Clapham Park
2m, 1f Holly Blue - River Ouzel
1 Duke of Burgundy - Whipsnade Downs
4m, 1f Orange Tip, 3 Small Copper, 2 Peacock, 3 Speckled Wood - The Lodge gatehouse and Ridge Trail
1m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Small Copper, 4 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - The Lodge Old Heath
2 Holly Blue - Bedford, Salcombe Close
1 Holly Blue - Bedford, Brixham Close
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Bedford, Haylands Way
2m Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 2m Orange Tip, 5 Peacock, 4 Speckled Wood - Chicksands Wood NE
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 5 Peacock, 1 Comma, 11 Speckled Wood - Chicksands Wood SW
4m, 1f Brimstone, 3m, 1f Orange Tip, 1m Peacock - Sharpenhoe NR
1, 1m Orange Tip, 2, 1m Holly Blue - Cotefield Drive, Leighton Buzzard
1 Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1 Holly Blue - Lower Stondon, Long Close garden
1 Brimstone, 2m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma, 2 Speckled Wood - Heath and Reach
1m Brimstone, 1 Small White, 1 Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Shillington
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Kempston, garden

19th:
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip - Tiddenfoot Waterside park
3m Brimstone, 4 Small/Green-veined White, 4m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - DENR, Maulden
1 Holly Blue - Ampthill Garden
1 Small/Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Stewartby Green Lane
1m Brimstone, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 2m Orange Tip, 3 Peacock - Stewartby Lake
2m Brimstone, 1 Large White, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 5 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Marston Vale Milennium Country Park
4m Brimstone, 5m Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 4 Peacock, 4 Speckled Wood - Lower Stondon fields
1m Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 3m Orange Tip, 1 Speckled Wood - Lower Stondon fields
3m Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 3 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Lower Stondon fields
1m Orange Tip, 2, 1 pair Holly Blue - Bedford, Salcombe Close
1 Grizzled Skipper, 1m Brimstone, 4m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 7 Peacock - Sandy Smith NR
1m Brimstone, 2 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Bedford garden
1m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1 Holly Blue, 2 Small Tortoiseshell - Toddington
6 Brimstone, 2 Small White, 2 Orange Tip, 3 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Potton Wood outside track
7 Brimstone, 6 Small White, 1m Green-veined White, 4 Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 1 Comma - Leagrave Park
1m Brimstone - Sundon Park Luton
2m Brimstone - Sundon Churchyard
1m Brimstone - Harlington Road Sundon
2 Holly Blue - Tavistock Avenue, Ampthill
1m Brimstone, 1m, 2f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Kempston, garden
1m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue - Waterloo Road, Bedford
1 Peacock - Centenary Wood
1f Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Centenary Wood
1 Peacock - Centenary Wood

18th:
1m Orange Tip - Linslade garden
1m, 1f Brimstone - Danish Camp, Willington
1m Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 3 Peacock, 2 Comma, 5 Speckled Wood - Linslade Woods
9 Holly Blue - Rothsay Road Bedford
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Ivel Meadows, Sandy
1m Orange Tip, 4 Holly Blue, 1 Painted Lady, 1 Peacock - The Baulk, Beeston
4m, 2f Brimstone, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 8m, 2f Orange Tip, 3 Small Tortoiseshell, 4 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Priory Park
6m, 1f Brimstone, 11m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 2 Peacock, 1 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Route 51 Bedford to Willington
1 Brimstone, 2 Small White, 2 Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Sharnbrook, garden
1m Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 3m Holly Blue, 1 Peacock - Church Walk, Harrold
2m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue - Tavistock Avenue, Ampthill
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Kempston, garden

17th:
2 Green-veined White, 3m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 6 Speckled Wood - Flitton moor
1m Orange Tip - Silsoe Road, Silsoe.
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip - Lilley, Barton-Le-Cley.
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1m Holly Blue, 1 Peacock - Garden, Riseley
1 Comma - Heath and Reach
2m Brimstone, 1m, 1f Orange Tip - Stewartby lake
1m Orange Tip - Station lane, Millbrook
2m, 2f Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock - Warden Hill SSSI
1f Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Bedford garden
3 Small/Green-veined White, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Peacock - The Baulk, Beeston
1m Brimstone - A507 near Stotfold
3m, 1f Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 2 Comma - Potton Wood ride
1 Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Heath and Reach
4 Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 5m Orange Tip, 1 Small Copper, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 5 Peacock - John Bunyan trail near Chicksands
1 Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Tavistock Avenue, Ampthill
1f Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Holly Blue - Kempston, garden

16th:
1 Holly Blue - Leighton Buzzard
1 Holly Blue - Toddington, Park Hill
2 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - King's Wood, Heath and Reach
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock - Blows Downs nature reserve
1m Brimstone - Blows Downs nature reserve
2 Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 4 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Field edges Cleat Hill
3 Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Field edges Graze Hill
1f Brimstone, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 4m Orange Tip, 2 Speckled Wood - DENR, Maulden
1f Brimstone - Ampthill Garden
1 Holly Blue - Fallowfields, Sandy

15th:
1 Small Copper - RSPB Lodge, Sandy
2 Peacock - Bower Street, Bedford and by boating lake
1 Holly Blue - York Street, Bedford
1 Small White, 1 Peacock - 5th fairway on john o gaunt golf course
1m Brimstone, 1 Small White, 2m Orange Tip, 5 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Comma - Dunstable Sewage Treatment Works
1 Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1 Small Copper - RSPB Lodge, Sandy
1m Orange Tip - Tavistock Avenue, Ampthill
3m Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Track to Knocking Hoe NNR

14th:
1m Orange Tip - Sports field, Heath and Reach
1 Peacock - Back garden in Beeston
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Ditch on the track to Sheerhatch Wood
1 Holly Blue, 1 Speckled Wood - Broom Gravel Pits

13th:
1m Orange Tip - Great Denham
1 Small White - Millennium CP

11th:
5m Orange Tip, 2 Small Tortoiseshell - path between Barwick Spinney and Barwick Wood, Colworth, Sharnbrook
1m Brimstone, 1 Small/Green-veined White, 1m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 6 Peacock, 1 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Clapham Park Wood
1m Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 1 Holly Blue - Caldecote Garden
1 Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Comma, 3 Speckled Wood - Upper Alders, SSNR
1m Brimstone, 1 Peacock - Barton Hills
3 Brimstone, 1m Green-veined White, 1 Small/Green-veined White, 2f Orange Tip, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock - front of and bridleway alongside Putnoe Wood
1 Holly Blue - gardens of The Higgins Bedford
2m Brimstone, 3m, 1f Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 4 Comma - Marston Thrift
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Marston Thrift
1 Peacock - back garden, Heath and Reach
1 Holly Blue - Tavistock Avenue Ampthill
1 Small White, 1 Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip - King William Close, Kempston
1 Speckled Wood - Kempston West, South bank of Ouse
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma, 3 Speckled Wood - Kempston West
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Kempston West
1 Speckled Wood - John o Gaunt golf course

10th:
1 Green-veined White, 1 Speckled Wood - The Lodge RSPB.
1 Peacock - Broom Gravel Pits
1m Brimstone - Wigmore, Luton.
1 Speckled Wood - Landpark wood
2 Small White, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Dropshort Marsh
4 Brimstone, 2 Small/Green-veined White, 5m Orange Tip, 1 Peacock, 4 Speckled Wood - Willington
3m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Maulden Wood and Heath
1 Small/Green-veined White, 2 Peacock, 1 Comma - Maulden Wood, main ride
1 Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock, 1 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Flitton Moor
2 Small White, 1m, 1f Orange Tip, 3 Peacock, 5+ Comma, 3 Speckled Wood - bridleway near Putnoe Wood
4 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Dunstable Sewage Treatment Works
1m Orange Tip - Stanbridgeford
1m Orange Tip - Leighton Buzzard
1m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock - Church Walk, Harrold
1 Speckled Wood - near Center parcs
1m Orange Tip - near Center parcs
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Ruxox bridleway
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Sandy
1m Brimstone, 4 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Blows Downs nature reserve
1 Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1 Holly Blue - Tavistock Avenue Ampthill

8th:
1m, 1f Brimstone, 1m Green-veined White, 1m Orange Tip - Church Walk, Harrold
1m Brimstone - Caves Lane, Bedford

3rd:
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Blow's down, Dunstable.

1st:
1 Green Hairstreak - Knocking Hoe Transect
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Whipsnade Downs
1m Brimstone, 1m, 1f Orange Tip, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Peacock - Maulden Wood
1m Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 2 Peacock, 3 Comma - Maulden Wood
1 Brimstone, 1 Small White, 1 Peacock - Common Lane Sundon to the Chalk Pits
1m Brimstone, 1m Small Tortoiseshell - Common Lane Sundon to the Chalk Pits
1 Brimstone, 1 Small White, 1 Peacock - walkway behind houses, Bedford
3 Peacock - front of Putnoe Wood
1 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 8 Peacock, 3 Comma - bridleway from Putnoe Wood to Renhold
1 Peacock - Alwins Field garden, Linslade
1m Brimstone, 1m Orange Tip - Leighton Buzzard
2m Orange Tip, 6 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 2 Speckled Wood - Octagon Farm
1 Peacock - Sandy garden
1 Orange Tip - On riverside walk from Danish Camp, just by entry to Bulge Wood

March 2019

31st:
1 Peacock - Broom Gravel Pits, Gypsy Lane
1 Green-veined White - Biggleswade Common
1 Painted Lady, 4 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Meadow Lane GP, Bedford

March 2019

30th:
1m Orange Tip - Bedford Park
1 Orange Tip - Marston vale country park
1 Speckled Wood - Milbrook pillinge, mvcp
4m, 1f Brimstone, 5 Peacock, 8 Comma, 2 Speckled Wood - Clapham Park Wood
4 Peacock, 1 Comma - Pegnut Wood, Potton
1 Holly Blue - Bedford, Salcombe Close
1 Brimstone - Bedford garden
1m Brimstone, 1 Small White, 3 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock - The Baulk, Beeston and The Riddy N.R
3 Small Tortoiseshell, 5 Peacock - Ivel Meadows, Sandy
1 Small White, 1 Red Admiral, 3 Peacock - The Lodge gatehouse
3 Peacock - The Lodge gardens
1 Brimstone, 2 Peacock - Waterloo Road, Bedford
1 Holly Blue, 1 Peacock - West Road, Sandy
3 Brimstone, 1 Orange Tip - Bedford Road, Barton-Le-Clay

29th:
1 Brimstone, 1 Small White - Ampthill garden
1m Brimstone, 1 Small White - Sundon Park Luton
6m Brimstone, 2 Large White, 1 Small White, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Leagrave Park, Luton
5m Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Wauluds Bank, Luton
5 Brimstone, 1 Green-veined White, 1 Orange Tip - Fairfield cemetery and surrounds, near Stotfold, Beds
1m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Large White, 4 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Dunstable Sewage Treatment Works
4 Brimstone, 1 Orange Tip, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - West Drive, Arlesey, Beds
1m Brimstone - Bedford garden
1 Brimstone, 1 Comma - Mowsbury Park wild edge
2 Brimstone, 2 Small White, 3 Small Tortoiseshell, 4 Peacock, 7 Comma - North Brickhill CP
1 Holly Blue - Castle Rd, Bedford
4m, 2f Brimstone, 1 Small White, 1 Peacock - Linslade garden
1m Brimstone - Castle Rd, Bedford
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Priory Country Park - NE
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 4 Peacock - Millennium Country Park
2m Brimstone - Roadside nr Kings Wood Heath and Reach
1 Brimstone, 5+, 3m, 3f Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 2 Comma - Cleat Hill field edges
1 Comma - The Rally, Arlesey
10m, 5f Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Icknield Way green lane.
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Swifts Green Close, Stopsley
1m Brimstone - St johns methodist church grounds. Luton
1m, 1f Brimstone - Shillington
1 Brimstone, 1 Orange Tip, 1 Comma - Tavistock Avenue Ampthill
1 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Sandy Smith Nature Reserve
1 Comma - Sandy Smith Nature Reserve
1 Peacock - Sandy Smith Nature Reserve
2 Peacock - Hill farm Ampthill
2 Brimstone, 1 Small White, 4 Peacock - Maulden Wood rides

28th:
5m, 2f Brimstone, 1 Small White, 1m Orange Tip, 3 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 3 Comma, 1 Speckled Wood - Myers Farm, Potton
4 Brimstone - Begwary Brook
2 Peacock - Begwary Brook
1 Peacock - Rothsay Road Bedford
2 Holly Blue - Rothsay Road Bedford
3 Brimstone, 1 Orange Tip - Everton to Tempsford road
1m Brimstone, 2, 1m, 1f Small Tortoiseshell - Leighton Buzzard
1m, 1f Peacock - The Rally, Arlesey
2 Small Tortoiseshell, 3 Peacock, 1 Comma - on track from House Lane, Arlesey across to the A507
2m Brimstone, 1 Peacock - Barton recreation ground
2m Brimstone, 2 Comma - King's Wood, Heath and Reach
4m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Peacock - Linslade garden
1m Brimstone - Swifts Green Close, Stopsley
1 Peacock - Knocking hoe NNR
4 Small Tortoiseshell - The Riddy NR, Sandy

26th:
1m Small White - Bedford, on North side of A5141 shortly before Kingsway junction
1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Maulden wood
1m Brimstone - Upper Alders, SSNR
1 Peacock - Back garden in Beeston
1 Peacock - King William Close, Kempston

25th:
2 Red Admiral, 2 Comma - Maulden and Pennyfather's Hills SSSI
3 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 4 Comma - Fenlake Meadows
1 Brimstone, 2 Small Tortoiseshell - Suburban garden, Stopsley, Luton
1m Holly Blue - garden in fallowfield road Ampthill
1 Comma - Footpath near Maulden Road, Flitwick
1 Comma - Castle Gardens, Bedford
3 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 3 Comma - Fenlake Meadows, Bedford

24th:
Several Brimstone, 2m Orange Tip, 2 Peacock - Roxton
1 Holly Blue - Meppershall
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Myers Farm, Potton
1 Brimstone - Stopsley
1f Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - gardens, Linslade
3m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Comma - Linslade Woods
2m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Blow's Downs
2m Brimstone - Blow's Downs
2 Small Tortoiseshell - Blow's Downs
2m Brimstone - Blow's Downs
1m Brimstone - Blow's Downs
1m Brimstone - Riseley
1m Brimstone - Riseley
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Riseley
2m Brimstone, 1 Peacock - Riseley
1m Brimstone - Riseley
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Riseley
2 Peacock - Riseley
1m Brimstone - Wigmore, Luton.
1 Brimstone - Bedford garden
2m Brimstone - Marston Vale CP
3m Brimstone - Linslade garden
1m Brimstone - Moggerhanger
1m Brimstone - Woburn Safari Park
1m Brimstone - Junction of A603 with A421
1m Brimstone - Back garden in Sandy
1m Brimstone - Moggerhanger
2m Brimstone - Sheerhatch Wood
1m Brimstone - Cople
1m, 1f Brimstone, 2 Comma - Lovell Toad, Bedford
1 Small White, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Fenlake Meadows, Bedford
1m Brimstone - Priory Fishponds, Bedford
2m Brimstone, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Priory CP, Bedford
1m Brimstone, 1 Peacock - Meadow Lane GP, Bedford
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Comma - Bedford STW
1m Brimstone - Stevington Church marsh
2 Small Tortoiseshell - Nettle bed in field next to Wood Craft
1 Red Admiral - Rothsay Road Bedford
1 Small Tortoiseshell - bank of the R. Ivel
2m Brimstone, 3 Small Tortoiseshell - Church Walk, Harrold
2m Brimstone - Station road Lower Stondon
1m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Holly Blue, 1 Peacock, 1m Comma - Biggleswade garden
2m, 1f Brimstone, 2 Small Tortoiseshell - Wigmore CP
2m Brimstone, 1m Holly Blue - Meppershall
1 Brimstone, 2 Peacock, 1 Speckled Wood - Old Warden Tunnel
4m Brimstone, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Priory Country Park

23rd:
1m Brimstone - Luton, Icknield Way
1m Brimstone - Luton, Barton road
3m Brimstone - Luton, Barton road
1m Brimstone - Streatley, Luton Road A6
1m Brimstone - Barton-le-Clay, Luton Road A6 northbound slip
1m Brimstone - Barton-le-Clay, Hexton Road by school
1m Brimstone - Barton-le-Clay, Hexton Road
2m Brimstone - Shillington, Aspley End
1 Brimstone - Suburban back garden in Stopsley, Luton
2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Suburban garden, Stopsley Luton
1m Brimstone - Chute Farm
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Bison Hill
2 Brimstone - Back Garden at Harlington Road Sundon
1 Comma - Pegnut Wood, Potton
1 Brimstone - Clifton garden
1m Brimstone - Leighton Buzzard
1m Brimstone - Leighton Buzzard
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Priory Country Park

21st:
1 Comma - Old Railway station at Willington
1m Brimstone - Home Farm, Cockayne Hatley
2 Small Tortoiseshell - Myers Farm, Potton

18th:
1m Brimstone - Linslade garden

14th:
1 Brimstone - Meppershall garden
1m Small White - The Embankment, Bedford

5th:
1 Comma - Sandy garden
1 Comma - Near Barton-le-Clay

4th:
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Eyeworth

2nd:
1 Red Admiral - Stopsley garden
1 Comma - Kempston garden

February 2019

27th:
1m Brimstone - A6 Barton road Luton
1m Brimstone - A6 Barton Road near Streatley
2 Brimstone - Yelnow Lane sharnbrook
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Tetworth Hall Estate
1m Brimstone, 2 Red Admiral, 2 Comma - Myers Farm, Potton
1 Comma - Maulden wood
4m Brimstone - Wigmore, Luton.
1m Brimstone - Wigmore lane, Ramridge End.
2m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Blows Down
1m Brimstone - Blows Down
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Dunstable
2 Comma - Wigmore Valley Park , Luton
1m Brimstone - Bedford garden
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Ampthill fields
1f Brimstone - Ampthill carpark
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Astral Lake Park, Leighton Buzzard
1m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1m Brimstone - Pegsdon Hills
2m, 1f Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - St Thomas Parish Church, Stopsley
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Dunstable Downs Visitor centre

26th:
1m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Griffin Farm Toddington
3m Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Pegnut Wood, Potton
3m Brimstone - Village Farm, Sutton
1 Comma - Pegnut Wood, Potton
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Northill
2m Brimstone - A600 roadside N of Lower stondon
1m Brimstone - Luton, Vauxhall Way
1m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1m Brimstone - Rothschild Road Linslade
6m Brimstone, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Leagrave Park, Luton
2m Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral - Suncote Pit
1 Brimstone, 1 Comma - Flitwick
1m Brimstone - Priory Country Park
3m Brimstone, 1 Comma - Sewell Cutting nature reserve

25th:
2 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Reach Lane, Heath and Reach
1 Brimstone - Totternhoe Quarry
1 Brimstone - Totternhoe Quarry
1 Brimstone - Suncote Pit Nature Reserve
2 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Suburban back garden, Stopsley, Luton
1 Comma - Maulden Heath SSSI, western SSSI
3 Comma - Maulden Wood SSSI, main ride
2 Comma - Clifton garden
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock - Priory Country Park - NE
2m, 1f Brimstone - Suburban back garden, Stopsley, Luton
1 Brimstone - The Thorns, Bromham
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Field path near Arlesey
4m Brimstone - Sharpenhoe Clappers
1 Comma - Barton garden
2m Brimstone - Dunstall Road Barton
2 Comma - Sandy Smith NR
1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Sandy Smith NR
1, 1m Brimstone - Sandy Smith NR
1 Small White - Colmworth
2 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Castle Gardens, Bedford
1m Brimstone - Kempston garden
2 Brimstone - Stotfold Mill Meadows

24th:
4 Brimstone - Stotfold garden
1m Brimstone - Bedford garden
1 Brimstone - Ampthill garden
1m Brimstone - Sandy garden
3 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Comma - Mowsbury Hill
1 Brimstone, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Sandy garden
1m Brimstone, 1 Comma - Back garden in Beeston
1 Comma - Stotfold Mill Nature Reserve
3m Brimstone - River Ouse riverside, Kempston
1 Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral - Blow's Downs nature reserve
2m Brimstone, 3+ Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Comma - Stopsley garden
3m Brimstone, 1 Comma - Stotfold garden
1 Brimstone, 1 Comma - nr Sandy Smith NR
1 Brimstone, 1 Small White - Shillington Church
1 Small White - Biggleswade
1 Brimstone - Gravenhurst
2 Brimstone - Bedford garden
1 Brimstone - Kingbrook Road Bedford
1m Brimstone - Entrance to Potton Wood.
1f Comma - Biggleswade garden
1 Brimstone - Sun Street, Biggleswade
1 Comma - Flitwick Moor
12 eggs Purple Hairstreak - Flitwick Moor
1 Brimstone - Meppershall airfield
1m Brimstone - Kempston garden
4m, 1f Brimstone, 1, 1m, 1f Small Tortoiseshell, 1 Peacock, 1 Comma - Priory Park

23rd:
1 Brimstone - Suburban back garden, Stopsley, Luton
2 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Suburban back garden, Stopsley, Luton
1 Brimstone - Ampthill garden
1m Brimstone - Footbridge to the east of Great Barford bridge
2m Brimstone - Common Lane Sundon to the Chalk Pits
1m Small Tortoiseshell - Common Lane Sundon to the Chalk Pits
1 Brimstone, 1 Small Tortoiseshell - Clophill shrubland
1m Brimstone - Linslade woods
3m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1m Brimstone - Linslade Woods
1m Brimstone - Holme
1m Brimstone - Kempston garden

22nd:
1 Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Comma - Bedford
1 Red Admiral - Sandy Heath Quarry
1m Brimstone - Green End, Maulden
1m Brimstone - Garden, Luton
3 Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral - Lower Stondon garden
1m Brimstone - Platform of the old Willington train station
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Greenfield garden
1 Peacock - Holme
1m Brimstone - Kempston garden

21st:
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Myers Farm, Potton
1 Brimstone - Sandy garden
1, 1m Brimstone - Heathland creation compartment in Maulden Wood

17th:
1 Red Admiral - Suburban back garden in Stopsley, Luton
1f Brimstone - Ampthill Garden
1 Peacock - Keysoe Row West
3m Brimstone - In newly planted area north of main ride of Marston Thrift
1 Peacock - Waitrose car park, Ampthill
1m Brimstone, 1 Red Admiral - Caldecote Garden
1 Red Admiral - Greensand Ridge Millbrook to Lidlington

16th:
1m Brimstone - Garden in Upper Caldecote
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Woburn Street, Ampthill

15th:
1m Brimstone - Garden in Studham
1m Brimstone - Linslade

14th:
1 Small Tortoiseshell - Garden, Heath and Reach
1 Brimstone - Sharnbrook
2 Brimstone - Lancott Meadow NR, Dunstable
1m Brimstone - Stopsley garden
1 Brimstone - Suburban back garden
1f Brimstone - Whipsnade Tree Cathedral and Whipsnade Heath.
1m Brimstone - Whipsnade Heath

7th:
2 Purple Hairstreak eggs found on Sandy pinnacle.

5th:
1 Small Tortoiseshell flew out of a workshop at John O'Gaunt golf course.

4th:
1 Peacock found hibernating in a workshop at John O'Gaunt golf course.

January 2019

25th:
2 Purple Hairstreak eggs found near Bedford in approx 15 minutes of looking at buds on oak with a magnifying glass.

8th:
1 Red Admiral - Working Woodland Centre (Maulden Wood)

Recent years

If you'd like to read the summaries of recent years they can still be accessed via the following links: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.