Events

Join us for guided walks at Fineshade Wood Wednesday through to Sunday from 17th May until 11th June (also including Monday 29th May) as part of the ‘Chequered Skippers – Taking Flight’ Project funded by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund.

We will be keeping an eye out for our three target species, Grizzled Skippers, Dingy Skippers and, if we are very lucky, Chequered Skippers!

Skipper Guided Walks at Fineshade Wood Wednesday 17th May to Sunday 11th June 2023, 10:30am-12:30pm

LN11 7TS (nearest postcode)

Come and celebrate National Nature Reserves Week at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR

There are guided walks from 23 - 29 May 2023 including a butterfly walk on 24 May 10.00 am to 12.30 pm

Tuesday 30th May

Raploch Community Campus, Stirling

Join us in Stirling to find out how to identify and record butterflies!

Latterbarrow Nature Reserve

Target species Dingy Skipper and other Spring butterflies

Hartslock BBOWT Nature Reserve

We will explore the grassland and scrubby edges for some of the reserve's spring butterflies; we may even see an orchid or two.

Friday 2nd June

Rozelle House, Ayr

Join us in Ayr to learn how to creat Wild Spaces to help butterflies and moths thrive!

Friday 2nd June

Ayr

Join us in Ayr to find out how to create Wild Spaces to help butterflies and moths in your community!

Join Butterfly Conservation for an introduction to the world of day-flying moths.

Join Butterfly Conservation and Cleeve Common Trust for a joint event at our Prestbury Hill reserve this half-term!  Also at 11:30am we will go on a butterfly and minibeast hunt around Cleeve Common and Prestbury Hill. This requires booking. Please follow this link for more details https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-fun-friday-bug-hunting-and-butterfly-spotting-tickets-621157427587.

Fineshade Wood FE

We will focus on the more open, sunny rides and woodland edges, in search of a rare re-introduced butterfly.

Logie quarry near Kildary

A WALK TO SEE SMALL BLUE & DINGY SKIPPER BUTTERFLIES

Cheam SM2 7HS

Target: Small Blue

Car park Santon Bridge Eskdale Green Road

Target species Mountain Ringlet. We're sorry that this field trip is now fully subscribed

Bradenham Estate NT

We will explore parts of this extensive estate for early-summer butterflies; and other wildlife.

Walk to see Wood White and if we are very lucky Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary.
Meet in parking area at SO649127, nearest postcode GL14 3EZ, W3W  unpacked.castle.teaching.

Visit to the Wildlife Trust reserve for Small Blues and other butterfly species

Ashbury near Swindon

We will explore the restored grassland for early-summer butterflies and day-flying moths.

Epsom KT19 8PL

Target: Black Hairstreak

Stoke Camp BC Reserve, Mendip Hills

Back in the Mendip Hills and the first walk to one of our branch reserves.

For further information, please click on the link above or on the photo.

Free Online Zoom Workshop

Learn more about the Large Heath butterfly, it's ecology and how you can get involved with this year's survey on lowland raised bogs.

Salcey Forest, Northamptonshire

The Butterflies of Salcey Forest : target species - Wood Whites and other spring species

Halse Combe, Exmoor

A walk around Halse Combe, Exmoor looking for Heath Fritillary (National Trust's Holnicote Estate)

For further information, please click on the link above or on the photo.

Merrow GU1 2QP

Target: Small Blue

Stonepit Field, The Parks Trust

A gentle saunter around the meadow and ponds, hoping to find Small Blue and other early summer butterfly species.

Cheam SM3 8DP

Target: Black Hairstreak

Learn how to identify some of our common day-flying moths and discover how you can help our work by recording any moths that you see.

PORTLAND QUARRIES

Help with the management of Portland habitats

Anne Dyer is kindly opening the gates to Simon's Field Butterfly Field at Westhope College, Shropshire for Butterfly Conservation

Bernwood Meadows BBOWT Nature Reserve

We will explore, from the FE car park onto the meadows, looking for a range of butterflies including scarce species.