Recent highlights from submitted sightings

2026

October

08-Oct

Burton Latimer

Holly Blue X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 2

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 3

06-Oct

Lilbourne Meadows

Clouded Yellow X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 18

Common Blue X 14

Small Copper X 1

05-Oct

Abington Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

Holly Blue

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 1

New Duston

Holly Blue X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Venture Park, Kettering

Red Admiral X 1

Wicksteed Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

04-Oct

Abington Park

Painted Lady X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 1

Betweet Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 5

Brackley

Holly Blue X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 1

Burton Latimer, footpath to the south

Clouded Yellow X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 2

Hanwood Park, Kettering

Clouded Yellow X 1

Holly Blue X 1

Hinton Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 7

Red Admiral X 2

Small White X 3

New Duston

Red Admiral X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 1

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Small Copper X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

03-Oct

Betweet Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 1

Burton Latimer, footpath to the south

Small Copper X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

Earls Barton Gravel Pits, New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 1

Peacock X 1

02-Oct

Badby

Clouded Yellow X 2

Burton Latimer

Holly Blue X 1

Burton Latimer, footpath to the south

Small Copper X 1

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 20

New Duston

Holly Blue X 1

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Red Admiral X 1

Venture Park, Kettering

Red Admiral X 1

01-Oct

Grand Union Canal, Yelvertoft

Clouded Yellow X 1

Kinewell Lake, Ringstead

Peacock X 1

Speckled Wood X 2

Orlingbury

Red Admiral X 1

September

30-Sep

Dallington, Northampton

Holly Blue X 2

Grand Union Canal, Yelvertoft

Clouded Yellow X 2

Twywell Hills and Dales

Common Blue X 1

Small Copper X 1

28-Sep

Barton Seagrave

Holly Blue X 1

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 12

Common Blue X 4

Earls Barton Gravel Pits, New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 2

Greatworth

Clouded Yellow X 18

Common Blue X 8

Harrington Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 2

Pitsford Nature Reserve

Comma X 1

Red Admiral X 1

27-Sep

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 2

26-Sep

Betweet Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 2

Billing Road Cemetery

Small Copper X 1

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 40

Earls Barton Gravel Pits, New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 3

Small White X 1

Speckled Wood X 4

Fermyn Woods

Red Admiral X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

Swan Valley, Northampton

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 4

25-Sep

Abington Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Speckled Wood X 3

Betweet Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 13

Common Blue X 8

Small Copper X 1

Islip

Clouded Yellow X 1

New Duston

Common Blue X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Old Sulehay

Red Admiral X 1

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 1

24-Sep

Ring Haw

Clouded Yellow X 2

Common Blue X 2

Red Admiral X 3

Small Copper X 1

Small Heath X 5

Speckled Wood X 1

Salcey Forest

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 3

Painted Lady X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small Heath X 1

Speckled Wood X 4

23-Sep

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 26

Common Blue X 5

Large White X 1

New Duston

Clouded Yellow X 1

Twywell Hills and Dales

Common Blue X 1

22-Sep

Kingsthorpe, Northampton

Clouded Yellow X 9

21-Sep

Abington Park

Speckled Wood X 1

Bozeat

Brimstone X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 3

Creaton Fields near Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 20

Common Blue X 10

Large White X 2

Great Doddington

Brimstone X 1

Small Tortoiseshell X 1

Hanwood Park, Kettering

Common Blue X 1

Kettering

Red Admiral X 1

Old, Lucerne Fields

Clouded Yellow X 7

Common Blue X 10

Peacock X 1

Small Copper X 1

Pitsford Nature Reserve X 6

Clouded Yellow X 4

Pitsford Reservoir

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 90

Common Blue X 71

Painted Lady X 1

Peacock X 1

Small Heath X 2

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Red Admiral X 2

Speckled Wood X 1

20-Sep

Barton Seagrave, near Wicksteed Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

Borough Hill, Daventry

Clouded Yellow X 7

Small Heath X 4

Small White X 1

Cranford

Red Admiral X 3

Fermyn Woods

Red Admiral X 1

Speckled Wood X 8

Southfield Farm Marsh Nature Reserve

Green-veined White X 2

Holly Blue X 1

Small Copper X 2

Speckled Wood X 1

Stanwick Lakes

Brown Argus X 3

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 4

Green-veined White X 5

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 3

Small White X 3

Speckled Wood X 2

19-Sep

Bucknell Woods X 21

Red Admiral X 1

Speckled Wood X 20

Fermyn Woods

Common Blue X 1

Green-veined White X 1

Red Admiral X 2

Speckled Wood X 8

18-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 25

Common Blue X 11

Pitsford Resevoir

Brown Argus X 2

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 10

Small Heath X 1

Stanwick Lakes Country Park

Red Admiral X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

18-Sep

Harrington Airfield

Brown Argus X 2

Common Blue X 2

Small Heath X 1

Speckled Wood X 2

Ring Haw

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 4

Green-veined White X 2

Large White X 1

Meadow Brown X 1

Red Admiral X 5

Small Copper X 2

Small Heath X 7

Speckled Wood X 4

16-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 8

Creaton, field near sewage farm

Clouded Yellow X 20

Common Blue X 4

Small Heath X 1

Earls Barton Gravel Pits New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 7

Common Blue X 3

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 2

Hinton Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 4

Rothersthorpe

Clouded Yellow X 11

Red Admiral X 2

Swan Valley, Northampton

Brown Argus X 2

Clouded Yellow X 4

Common Blue X 12

Large White X 1

Small White X 4

Twywell Hills and Dales

Clouded Yellow X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Small Heath X 2

15-Sep

Billing Mill

Clouded Yellow X 2

Common Blue X 1

Church Brampton, east of Brampton Heath Golf Course

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 8

Common Blue X 1

Painted Lady X 2

Small White X 1

Craton, field next to Station Rd

Clouded Yellow X 3

Creaton, field near sewage farm

Clouded Yellow X 45

Creaton, field next to playing ground

Clouded Yellow X 7

Harrington Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 4

Kinewell Lake, Ringstead

Green-veined White X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 1

Speckled Wood X 2

Old, lucerne fields to the south

Clouded Yellow X 45

West Lodge Farm Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

14-Sep

Abington Park

Small Copper X 1

Earls Barton Gravel Pits New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 2

Fineshade Wood

Small Heath X 1

Hinton Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 3

Green-veined White X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 2

Moreton Pinkney

Clouded Yellow X 1

Pitsford Resevoir

Clouded Yellow X 71

Common Blue X 46

Painted Lady X 2

Speckled Wood X 2

Sywell Country Park

Clouded Yellow X 1

13-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Common Blue X 2

Small Copper X 1

Earls Barton Gravel Pits New Workings

Clouded Yellow X 8

Red Admiral X 1

Stanwick Lakes Country Park

Brown Argus X 1

West Lodge Farm Park

Clouded Yellow X 2

12-Sep

Bucknell Woods

Common Blue X 1

Green-veined White X 1

Speckled Wood X 14

Hazelborough Forest

Clouded Yellow X 3

Swan Valley, Northampton

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 12

Large White X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 1

11-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 6

Clouded Yellow X 29

Common Blue X 41

Small Copper X 3

Small White X 1

Cottesbrooke, near Gamboro Plantation

Clouded Yellow X 10

Creaton Sewage Works

Clouded Yellow X 20

Common Blue X 11

Large White X 1

Painted Lady X 2

Swan Valley, Northampton

Brown Argus X 2

Common Blue X 6

10-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Comma X 1

Common Blue X 4

Large White X 1

Coton Manor Garden

Comma X 1

Common Blue X 3

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 7

Old, Along Footpath to Walgrave

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 34

Comma X 1

Common Blue X 1

Green-veined White X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Small Copper X 3

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 1

Whiston Lock, River Nene

Clouded Yellow X 2

09-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 4

Clouded Yellow X 13

Common Blue X 19

Painted Lady X 1

Small Copper X 1

Small White X 1

Little Stanion

Clouded Yellow X 1

Sixfields, Northampton

Clouded Yellow X 1

08-Sep

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 25

Common Blue X 16

Small Heath X 3

07-Sep

Badby

Clouded Yellow X 3

Collyweston Bridge, fields to the north

Clouded Yellow X 1

Fineshade Wood

Clouded Yellow X 1

Hanwood Park, Kettering

Clouded Yellow X 1

Pitsford Reservoir

Brown Argus X 4

Clouded Yellow X 40

Common Blue X 22

Green-veined White X 1

Painted Lady X 5

Peacock X 3

Small Copper X 4

Small Heath X 5

Small White X 2

Speckled Wood X 3

06-Sep

Boddington Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 3

Bozenham Mill

Clouded Yellow X 2

Fermyn Woods

Brown Argus X 1

Comma X 1

Common Blue X 6

Green-veined White X 20

Peacock X 2

Red Admiral X 4

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 4

Speckled Wood X 24

Lyveden New Bield

Clouded Yellow X 2

Old Sulehay

Comma X 1

Common Blue X 4

Large White X 1

Peacock X 1

Small Heath X 3

Small White X 5

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 3

Common Blue X 1

Small Heath X 1

Speckled Wood X 1

Ring Haw

Brown Argus X 2

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 5

Green-veined White X 3

Small Heath X 30

Small White X 3

Sixfields, Northampton

Clouded Yellow X 1

Summer Leys Nature Reserve

Brown Argus X 4

Common Blue X 6

Red Admiral X 1

Small Copper X 2

Speckled Wood X 6

Swan Valley, Northampton

Painted Lady X 1

05-Sep

Abington Park

Small Copper X 2

Between Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 3

Clouded Yellow X 9

Common Blue X 5

04-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Swan Valley, Northampton

Brown Argus X 3

Clouded Yellow X 3

Common Blue X 20

Small White X 1

03-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 10

Common Blue X 15

Large White X 1

Small Copper X 2

Small Heath X 1

Bucknell Woods

Comma X 1

Green-veined White X 17

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 2

Speckled Wood X 6

Clifford Hill Gravel Pits

Clouded Yellow X 1

Cottesbrooke, near Gamboro Plantation

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 1

Large White X 7

Small Copper X 1

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 5

Lamport Hall

Clouded Yellow X 1

Old, Along Footpath to Walgrave

Clouded Yellow X 12

Pitsford Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 1

01-Sep

Between Duston and Harlestone

Clouded Yellow X 5

Common Blue X 3

Small Heath X 2

Boddington Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 12

Chapel Brampton

Clouded Yellow X 4

Common Blue X 3

Large White X 2

Painted Lady X 2

Small Copper X 2

Small White X 1

Fermyn Woods

Meadow Brown X 1

Red Admiral X 1

Small White X 1

Speckled Wood X 4

Harlestone Firs

Brown Argus X 1

Clouded Yellow X 3

Common Blue X 11

Green-veined White X 1

Large White X 1

Small Heath X 1

Small White X 4

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows

Clouded Yellow X 1

Painted Lady X 1

Naseby Reservoir

Clouded Yellow X 1

Ring Haw

Brown Argus X 2

Clouded Yellow X 4

Common Blue X 26

Large White X 2

Meadow Brown X 8

Small Copper X 1

Small Heath X 24

Small White X 2

Speckled Wood X 2

Spanhoe Airfield

Clouded Yellow X 1

Whiston Lock, River Nene

Clouded Yellow X 1

Common Blue X 1

Red Admiral X 1