Recent highlights from submitted sightings

2026

03-Apr

Brampton Valley Way

Comma X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 1

Kinewell Lake, Ringstead

Orange-tip X 1

Merry Tom Lane, Brixworth

Orange-tip X 1

Moulton

Green-veined White X 1

Titchmarsh Nature Reserve

Comma X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 5

Whiston Lock

Peacock X 2

Small White X 1

02-Apr - The 1st Green-veined White of the year was recorded today at Titchmarsh Nature Reserve

Abington Park

Holly Blue X 1

Barton Seagrave

Brimstone X 1

Brackmills

Orange-tip X 1

Brampton Valley

Orange-tip X 3

Small White X 1

Canons Ashby House

Peacock X 1

Chapel Brampton

Orange-tip X 1

Denford Ash

Comma X 1

Finedon

Speckled Wood X 1

Harpole

Peacock X 1

Small White X 1

Irthlingborough

Peacock X 2

Ise Brook, Kettering

Brimstone X 7

Comma X 9

Holly Blue X 1

Orange-tip X 2

Peacock X 29

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Small White X 5

Speckled Wood X 5

Merry Tom Lane, Brixworth

Holly Blue X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Ring Haw

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 1

Peacock X 9

Speckled Wood X 1

Stanford Reservoir

Peacock X 6

Summer Leys

Orange-tip X 1

Titchmarsh Nature Reserve

Comma X 1

Green-veined White X 1

Peacock X 1

Wicksteed Park

Comma X 8

Orange-tip X 3

Peacock X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Wollaston

Brimstone X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 1

Small White X 1

01-Apr

Great Oxendon

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

31-Mar - The 1st Holly Blues of the year were recorded today in Kettering and Wollaston

Bozeat

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 1

Small White X 1

Briar Hill Meadows

Small Tortoiseshell X 2

Cogenhoe

Brimstone X 5

Comma X 3

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 12

Cransley Wood

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 1

Peacock X 3

Ise Brook, Kettering

Brimstone X 2

Holly Blue X 1

Peacock X 2

Red Admiral X 1

Kettering

Brimstone X 2

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Moulton

Brimstone X 1

New Duston

Brimstone X 6

Comma X 2

Peacock X 3

Old

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Oundle

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Polebrook

Brimstone X 2

Orange-tip X 1

Stanwick Lakes

Brimstone X 1

Orange-tip X 2

Twywell Hills and Dales

Brimstone X 5

Comma X 1

Peacock X 8

Upton

Brimstone X 4

Peacock X 1

Venture Park, Kettering

Brimstone X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Wellingborough

Brimstone X 3

Small White X 1

Westone Estate, Northampton

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

Wilby

Brimstone X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Wollaston

Brimstone X 2

Holly Blue X 1

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 1

Small White X 1

Wollaston Baptist Church

Brimstone X 1

Holly Blue X 1

30-Mar

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows

Orange-tip X 1

28-Mar

Duston

Red Admiral X 1

Middleton Cheney

Speckled Wood X 1

Stanford Reservoir

Peacock X 1

26-Mar

Delapre Abbey

Orange-tip X 1

Fermyn Woods

Peacock X 3

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows

Peacock X 1

Summer Leys

Orange-tip X 2

Wilby

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

23-Mar

Brackmills

Peacock X 1

Denford Ash

Peacock X 1

21-Mar - The 1st Orange-tips of the year were recorded today in Bozeat, Cosgrove and Wollaston

Adstone

Brimstone X 3

Barton Seagrave

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

Bozeat

Brimstone X 2

Orange-tip X 1

Peacock X 1

Bozeat Quarry

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 5

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Brixworth Country Park

Brimstone X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Cosgrove

Orange-tip X 1

Cranford

Peacock X 1

Fermyn Woods

Comma X 1

Harrington Airfield

Peacock X 6

Harry's Park Wood

Comma X 2

Peacock X 9

Irthlingborough

Peacock X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Kettering

Comma X 2

Lilbourne Meadows

Small Tortoiseshell X 3

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 2

Moreton Pinkney

Peacock X 1

New Duston

Peacock X 5

Northampton

Peacock X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 4

Rothwell

Peacock X 1

Rushden

Peacock X 1

Thenford

Peacock X 2

Titchmarsh

Peacock X 2

Red Admiral X 1

Wollaston

Orange-tip X 1

Yelvertoft

Peacock X 1

20-Mar

Bradlaugh Fields

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Greens Norton

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows

Peacock X 9

Red Admiral X 1

19-Mar - The 1st Speckled Wood of the year was recorded today along the rive Ise in Kettering

Burton Latimer

Peacock X 3

Desborough

Brimstone X 2

Duston

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 4

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Hollowell Reservoir

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

Peacock X 8

Irchester

Brimstone X 1

Kettering, River Ise

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 13

Peacock X 44

Small Tortoiseshell X 4

Small White X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 2

Moulton

Peacock X 5

New Duston

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 5

Peacock X 12

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Small White X 1

Titchmarsh

Peacock X 1

Wootton

Peacock X 2

18-Mar - the 1st Small White of the year was recorded today at Wellingborough Embankment

Abington Park

Peacock X 1

Barton Seagrave

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Brixworth Country Park

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Chester House

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Corby

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Delapre Lake

Brimstone X 6

Desborough

Brimstone X 3

Duston

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

Evenley

Peacock X 4

Fermyn Woods

Brimstone X 16

Comma X 3

Peacock X 13

Red Admiral X 1

Hanwood Park, Kettering

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Long Buckby

Peacock X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

New Duston

Brimstone X 3

Comma X 1

Peacock X 3

Old Sulehay

Brimstone X 1

Pitsford Resevoir

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 1

Peacock X 5

Small Tortoiseshell X 2

Ring Haw

Brimstone X 9

Comma X 2

Peacock X 3

Rothwell

Brimstone X 2

Silverstone

Peacock X 1

Sudborough

Brimstone X 1

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Thorpe Malsor

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Thrapston

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Towcester

Brimstone X 1

Twywell Hills And Dales

Brimstone X 9

Peacock X 4

Upton

Brimstone X 3

Peacock X 6

Venture Park, Kettering

Brimstone X 1

Wellingborough Embankment

Peacock X 10

Small Tortoiseshell X 4

Small White X 1

Yelvertoft

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

17-Mar

Barton Seagrave

Brimstone X 2

Brampton Wood

Brimstone X 3

Comma X 5

Peacock X 12

Burton Latimer

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Harlestone Firs

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Higham Ferrers

Brimstone X 3

Irthlingborough Lakes And Meadows

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 1

Peacock X 2

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Kettering

Brimstone X 1

Lilbourne Meadows

Brimstone X 1

Loddington

Brimstone X 1

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 3

Peacock X 1

New Duston

Peacock X 1

Titchmarsh

Comma X 1

14-Mar

Bradlaugh Fields

Comma X 3

New Duston

Comma X 1

10-Mar

Cogenhoe

Peacock X 1

Irthlingborough Lakes And Meadows

Comma X 1

Peacock X 3

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Comma X 1

Peacock X 5

06-Mar

Sywell Country Park

Peacock X 2

Wellingborough

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

05-Mar

Bozeat

Brimstone X 5

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

Brackley

Brimstone X 3

Peacock X 2

Broughton

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Chapel Brampton

Brimstone X 1

Fermyn Woods

Brimstone X 11

Comma X 4

Peacock X 4

Grange Park

Brimstone X 1

Higham Ferrers

Brimstone X 1

Leisure Village Lake, Kettering

Brimstone X 2

Long Buckby

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Mears Ashby

Peacock X 1

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 2

New Duston

Brimstone X 2

Northampton

Brimstone X 1

Old

Brimstone X 3

Ravensthorpe Reservoir

Brimstone X 6

Peacock X 2

Salcey Forest

Brimstone X 19

Comma X 8

Peacock X 8

Stanford Reservoir

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 1

Peacock X 3

Small Tortoiseshell X 2

Stortons Gravel Pit

Brimstone X 7

Peacock X 2

Summer Leys

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

Thrapston

Brimstone X 1

Towcester Racecourse

Brimstone X 6

Wellingborough

Peacock X 1

Yelvertoft

Brimstone X 2

03-Mar

Brackley

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 2

Sixfields, Northampton

Comma X 1

02-Mar

Abington Vale Park

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Abthorpe

Peacock X 1

Bozeat

Comma X 1

Bozeat

Brimstone X 2

Bradlaugh Fields

Brimstone X 10

Comma X 8

Peacock X 14

Brampton Wood

Comma X 1

Brixworth

Brimstone X 1

Bucknell Woods

Brimstone X 13

Comma X 3

Peacock X 2

Desborough

Brimstone X 2

Far Cotton

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

Fermyn Woods Country Park

Peacock X 1

Great Addington

Brimstone X 1

Hanging Houghton

Brimstone X 7

Peacock X 1

Hargrave

Brimstone X 1

Harlestone Firs

Brimstone X 21

Peacock X 2

Hartwell

Brimstone X 1

Hazelborough Wood

Brimstone X 2

Comma X 2

Peacock X 1

Higham Ferrers

Brimstone X 1

Holdenby House

Brimstone X 4

Comma X 1

Irthlingborough Lakes And Meadows

Brimstone X 3

Peacock X 2

Kettering

Brimstone X 2

Little Harrowden

Brimstone X 1

Little Stanion

Brimstone X 1

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 5

New Duston

Brimstone X 2

Newton

Peacock X 1

Newton Rd, Rushden

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Northampton

Brimstone X 1

Old Stratford

Brimstone X 1

Pitsford Nature Reserve

Brimstone X 1

Ravensthorpe

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Ringstead, Kinewell Lake

Brimstone X 2

Rothwell

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Summer Leys

Brimstone X 8

Comma X 4

Peacock X 8

Small Tortoiseshell X 4

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Brimstone X 3

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Sywell Country Park

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

Peacock X 3

Thrapston

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Towcester

Brimstone X 3

Peacock X 1

Wellingborough

Brimstone X 2

West Hunsbury

Peacock X 1

Wicksteed Park

Peacock X 1

Wootton

Brimstone X 1

Comma X 1

Peacock X 1

25-Feb

Bozeat

Brimstone X 2

Brackley

Brimstone X 1

Brampton Woods

Brimstone X 2

Braunston

Brimstone X 2

Peacock X 1

Burton Latimer

Brimstone X 1

Cogenhoe

Brimstone X 3

Delapre Lake

Brimstone X 1

Denton

Brimstone X 2

Desborough

Brimstone X 2

Red Admiral X 2

Everdon Stubbs

Brimstone X 7

Great Doddington

Brimstone X 1

Harleston Firs

Brimstone X 1

Higham Ferrers

Brimstone X 2

Hunsbury, Northampton

Brimstone X 2

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows

Comma X 1

Thrapston

Brimstone X 2

Middleton Cheney

Brimstone X 5

Northampton

Brimstone X 1

Oundle

Brimstone X 2

Red Admiral X 1

Rushden

Brimstone X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Salcey Forest

Brimstone X 8

Short Wood

Brimstone X 8

Stanwick Lakes

Brimstone X 2

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Brimstone X 11

Comma X 2

Peacock X 4

Sywell

Brimstone X 1

Twywell Hills & Dales

Brimstone X 8

Peacock X 3

Upton

Brimstone X 1

Venture Park, Kettering

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Wappenham

Brimstone X 1

Wellingborough

Brimstone X 1

Peacock X 1

Whiston

Peacock X 1

Whittlebury

Brimstone X 1

Wollaston

Brimstone X 1

24-Feb

Barton Seagrave

Red Admiral X 1

Flore

Brimstone X 1

Higham Ferrers

Peacock X 1

Ringstead, Kinewell Lake

Red Admiral X 1

Stanwick Lakes

Brimstone X 1

Wilson's Pits

Brimstone X 2

Wollaston Garden

Brimstone X 2

Red Admiral X 1

22-Feb

Borough Hill

Brimstone X 1

Nassington

Peacock X 1

Summer Leys

Peacock X 1

14-Feb

Little Billing

Peacock X 1

Little Houghton

Peacock X 1

31-Jan

Mears Ashby

Brimstone X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Peacock X 1

24-Jan

Cottesbrooke

Red Admiral X 1

Old Village

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Rothwell

Peacock X 1