• The alternative egg hunt - brown hairstreak butterflies
    If you visited us in the early months of the year you may have noticed small pieces of string adorning some of the blackthorn bushes around the nature trail. These were marking the locations of brown...
  • Brown hairstreaks and Path Closures.
    One of the butterfly species we are lucky to have here at RSPB Pulborough is the Brown Hairstreak. It’s usually on the wing from the end of July, then throughout August and the beginning of September...
  • Looking forward to a Big Wild Summer at Pulborough Brooks
    The wildflowers are blooming, butterflies are fluttering over the meadows and dragonflies are darting over the ditches – Big Wild Summer has started at Pulborough Brooks! Summer is a fantastic time to...
  • Experience wildlife at night this summer
    Summer is one of the best times to meet nature ‘after dark’. As the sun sets, bats emerge from their daytime roosts and swoop around the canopy of the oak trees searching for moths and flies. Very lucky...
  • An introduction to the wonderful world of moths...
    I suspect that my first encounter with the wonderful world of Lepidoptera – butterflies & moths – might well have been a childhood reading of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Since then I have...