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Mar 27 | Orange-tip | 1 | Dorking | TQ165505 | Jenny Desoutter |
One of four Comma butterflies seen, the first photograph received, the others were noted at Wimbledon, Thornton Heath and Egham and are almost six weeks later than our first

Mar 27 | Comma | 1 | Headley Warren | TQ191539 | Gary Margetts |

Mar 27 | Camberwell Beauty | 1 | Wisley Common | TQ075587 | Adam Bolton James Herd |
Mar 23 | Small White | 1 | Richmond Park | TQ100741 | Eleanor Hays |
Following several weeks of cold grey weather, temperatures at last began to rise in the middle of the month with Brimstones seen across our area on 16th - in Sheen, Oxshot, Blackwater and Lingfield
Mar 16 | Holly Blue | 1 | Pirbright | SU930530 | Katherine Ramsay |
There were numerous sightings of Brimstone on the 14th and 15th of February, for example, in Pirbright, Guildford, Dorking and Banstead
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Feb 15 | Comma | 1 | Rotherhithe | TQ361799 | Audrey Reid |
Feb 14 | Hummingbird Hawk Moth | 1 | Gatwick | TQ278423 | Andrew Bashford |
Feb 10 | Hummingbird Hawk Moth | 1 | Sheen | TQ204746 | Peter Burrows-Smith |
Spring slowly makes it's approach and it is worth being on the lookout for butterflies anywhere in a sheltered sunny spot. Red Admirals, for example, were seen (3rd Feb), two in Barnes, four in Richmond Park and one in Croydon, all in the Greater London area. The first photograph of the year came three days later, (6th Feb, Beddington Farmlands), when there were also sightings of Red Admirals in Surrey, at Wisley and Reigate.

Feb 3 | Small Tortoiseshell | 1 | Richmond Park | TQ194713 | Steve Read |
Feb 1 | Peacock | 1 | Hill Park, Tatsfield | TQ422560 | Jim Yeeles |
Jan 6 | Red Admiral | 1 | Haslemere | SU890327 | C Mullender |
Jan 6 | Red Admiral | 1 | Redhill | TQ279504 | Ken Owen |
Jan 5 | Peacock | 1 | Warlingham | TQ355580 | Louise Kahan |
Jan 5 | Brimstone | 1 | Brambledown | TQ188576 | Keith Lelliott |