Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes

You can add to that brimstone butterflies.

They have been recorded flying in England every month of the year. I even saw one on Christmas Day 1958.

Yes, we had global warming half a century ago. Then came global cooling with those severe winters of the early 1960s.

My picture taken in the garden shows a male brimstone giving one of my narcissi a great big kiss.

What else can you call it? It was a lingering one as well, lasting a good half minute. Had to be for me to get a picture.

I am still in the Dark Ages with my old Pentax having to be got out of its case, hung round my neck, set for speed and aperture, then focused. Usually everything has flown away by then.

Male brimstones, which are yellow, can be easily told from the females, which are ivory- white like the old Morris Travellers.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette May 21