On May 27, 8:24*am, "'Mike'" wrote:
....... did the Painted Ladies Butterflies go North yesterday and Monday
evening?

They were coming over and into our garden in their dozens, no doubt blown
from France in the severe wind and storms.


Well one of them managed to make it to the Essex coast, it was sunning
itself on my patio.

Oddly enough the most numerous butterfly we have here this year so far
is the Speckled Wood, this is strange as it is not a frequent visitor
most years and we are a long way from the nearest wood!