Several of our common butterflies are now in good numbers locally. Particularly peacocks and red admirals. Also ringlets seem to be doing particularly well this year. This one taken in our garden. Not so common is the silver washed fritillary, a woodland butterfly. This image was taken this week at Castor Hanglands. I saw at least 4 seperate butterflies there. This is good news because before last summer i had only regularly seen them locally at Bedford Purlieus near Wansford. 
Our turtle doves have once again been successful this year. Here is one of the parent birds on the left with the 2 juveniles to the right. They are on the wires beyond the hedge dividing Helpston cemetery from the fields at the back.
The photo below was taken by my wife in our back garden. This is the first time we have recorded a tree creeper in our garden. It was on our acer tree in the middle of our lawn and hung around for about 5 mins allowing her a reasonably close shot. She was so thrilled to have seen it here.
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