Recent highlights from submitted sightings

2026

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