As February ends and March begins, the insect activity has suddenly exploded at Sculpture by the Lakes, particularly on the plum blossom and hellebores.
Red Admirals, once considered a migratory butterfly species largely arriving in May, have clearly survived the largely mild Dorset winter again. They were joined by Peacocks and a Brimstone giving us a magnificent count of 11 butterflies on a warm day in late February.
A week later, in March, we had our earliest record of a hummingbird hawk-moth. With the Alder, Hazel and Aspen catkins, Forsythia and bulb flowers all flowering, spring is definitely in full swing.