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Skipper Guided Walks at Fineshade Wood
Saturday 14th May to Sunday 12th June 2022, 11:00am-1:00pm
We will be holding daily guided walks at Fineshade Wood from May 14th until the end of the flight season (12th June) as part of the ‘Chequered Skippers – Taking Flight’ Project funded by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.
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Dorset: MOTH NIGHT - MOTH TRAPPING AND BUTTERFLY WALK AT ALNERS GORSE
Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd May 2022, 7:00pm-1:00pm
Hazelbury Bryan
Moth trapping and butterfly walk
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Moth Night 2022: The Argory
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 9:30am-11:00am
A joint event with the National Trust; join Rosemary Mulholland at the Argory to go through the moth traps to celebrate Moth Night 2022.
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Lincolnshire: Field Trip to North York Moors - Sunday 22 May 2022
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 10:00am-4:00pm
Helmsley Market Place
Visit to North York Moors - Sunday 22 May, 10.00 am start
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Worcestershire: Woodland Moth Morning
Sunday 22nd May, 10am
If you want to celebrate National Moth Night but are not a night owl this Woodland Moth Morning is an event for you!
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Glasdrum NNR Moth Morning
Sunday 22nd May 10am to 12
Glasdrum National Nature Reserve
Come along and see the wide variety of moths that have been caught in traps set on the National Nature Reserve the night before.
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Field trip: Boscombe Down West (Salisbury)
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 10:30am-1:00pm
Boscombe Down West (near Amesbury)
Follow the route of a disused railway line - an ideal habitat for downland butterflies
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Field Trip: Dunstable Downs - May 22nd 2022
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 10:30am-1:00pm
Dunstable Downs NT car park, Dunstable Road, Whipsnade LU6 2GY
Join David Chandler on a guided walk to see spring chalkland species, including Duke of Burgundy and Green Hairstreak.
(This is a Bedfordshire & Northants Branch event open to Cambridgeshire & Essex members.)
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An Upper Thames Branch Guided Walk with Steph Rogers
Sunday 22nd May, 10:30 am
Ivinghoe Beacosn, Bucks
A visit to Ivinghoe Beacon to see Duke of Burgundy and other spring species
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Bison Hill, Whipsnade field trip
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 10:30am-1:00pm
Bison Hill, Whipsnade
Looking for chalk grassland spring specialists like Grizzled and Dingy Skippers, Green Hairstreaks and Duke of Burgundy
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Butterfly Walk looking for spring butterflies with Big City Butterflies and the Friends of the Scrubs
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 10:30am-12:00am
Wormwood Scrubs - notice board https://w3w.co/Milk.either.finger
Butterfly Walk looking for spring butterflies with Big City Butterflies and the Friends of the Scrubs at Wormwood Scrubs - London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
No booking required
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Surrey field trip: Norbury Park 1
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 11:00am-3:00pm
Great Bookham KT23 4BP
Target: downland species
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Dorset: BUTTERFLY WALK ON BALLARD DOWN
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 11:00am-1:30pm
Ballard Down, Swanage
Butterflies, wild flowers and sea views
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An Upper Thames Branch Guided Walk with Gerry Kendall
Sunday 22nd May, 11:00 am
Aston Upthorpe Downs, Oxon
A visit to Aston Upthorpe Downs to see Dingy and Grizzled Skippers and Green Hairstreak
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary Workshop at Glasdrum NNR
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 2:00pm-4:30pm
Glasdrum National Nature Reserve
Join us for a field workshop at Glasdrum National Nature Reserve to learn about the Pearl-bordered Fritillary in Scotland and how to take part in this year's surveys for the species.
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Walk on Prestbury Hill Reserve
Sunday 22nd May 2022, 2:00pm-4:30pm
This walk takes you round a beautiful reserve overlooking Cheltenham.
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Cumbria: Field Trip, The Butterflies of Ormsgill Slag Banks, Barrow in Furness
Monday 23rd May 2022, 10:30am-1:30pm
Ormsgill Slagbanks, Barrow in Furness and optional Sandscale Haws
Target Species are Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Blue.
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Field Trip: Old Sulehay - May 24th 2022
Tuesday 24th May 2022, 11:00am-1:30pm
Ring Haw near Yarwell.
A guided walk to see spring species – including Grizzled Skipper and Dingy Skipper – at Stonepit Quarry and Ring Haw.
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Shropshire: Butterfly & Moth Festival 2022 - Green Hairstreak and Emperor Moth Survey Day (Part 2)
Wednesday 25th May, 11:00am
Green Hairstreak and Emperor Moth survey at Clee Liberty Common as part of the Butterfly & Moth Festival 2022
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Surrey field trip: Hutchinson’s Bank 2
Wednesday 25th May 2022, 11:00am-3:00pm
New Addington CR0 9AD
Target: Glanville Fritillary
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Dorset: GUIDED WALK - LYDLINCH COMMON
Wednesday 25th May 2022, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Lydlinch Common
A walk for Marsh Fritillary
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Butterflies of Warton Crag
Thursday 26th May 2022, 10:00am-2:30pm
Warton – Quarry Car Park
Target species: Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Heath and other spring species.
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Cumbria Field Trip, The Butterflies of Warton Crag
Thursday 26th May 2022, 10:00am-2:30pm
Warton Crag Carnforth
Targeting Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Dingy Skipper, Common Blue, Small Heath and other Spring species.
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An Upper Thames Branch Guided Walk with Brenda Mobbs
Thursday 26th May, 10:30 am
Yoesden Bank, Bucks
A visit to Yoesden Bank to see Adonis Blue and other spring species
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary Workshop at Newtonmore
Thursday 26th May 2022, 2:00pm-4:30pm
Newtonmore
Join us for a field workshop at Newtonmore to learn about the Pearl-bordered Fritillary in Scotland and how to take part in this year's surveys for the species.
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Ayrshire Small Blue Surveys
Friday 27th May 2022, 10:30am-4:00pm
Field Survey Day
Please help us survey the Small Blue and its habitat in Ayrshire
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Devon: Moth Event - Grendon Farm Moth Night
Friday 27th May 2022, 9:00pm
Grendon Farm
Moth event at Grendon Farm
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Cumbria Barnch AGM and Member's Day
Saturday 28th May 2022, 9:15am-3:00pm
Blackwood Farm, Braithwaite, Keswick
Moth traps, photographic opportunities, presentations, questions and a field walk
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Worcestershire: Wyre Forest Moth Morning & Butterfly Walk
Saturday 28th May, 10:00am
Celebrate 70th anniversary of National Nature Reserves with Butterfly Conservation West Midlands Branch at the Wyre Forest.
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An Upper Thames Branch Guided Walk with Maureen Cross
Saturday 28th May, 10:30 am
Lardon Chase, Streatley, Berks
A visit to Lardon Chase to see Adonis Blue and other spring species