• Brimstone
    This image shows a brimstone butterfly feeding near the decoy pond on 1 August 2011
  • Butterfly – Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)
  • Brimstones and Bluebells
    I went along to Broadwater yesterday to do some measuring up (an essential skill wardens need to have - mastering a 50 metre tape) and ended up by the Decoy Pond. What a transformation from the winter...
  • Brimstone and Bluebells
    A slightly battered Brimstone butterfly resting on a bluebell down by Decoy pond
  • Butterflies and ants
    Despite the sun it was only just warm enough today to do our first butterfly survey of the year for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. We recorded 9 Brimstone and 5 Peacock across the reserve. There...