Our first Butterflies for 2016 beside the Upper Bedon Stream

The Upper Bedon Stream is, we understand, Spring fed, and runs beside Streamway and then on to Brook Street, where it disappears underground, making its way, we assume, down to the Thames.

We opened our 2016 Butterfly account with a few Comma, Peacock, and Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies viz.

We then moved on to the East Wickham Open Space for a first 2016 visit. We noticed single Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies; also some flowering Cowslips viz.