Seeing so many butterflies has been one of the joys of recent walks taking in Knocking Hoe, the Pegsdon Hills and sections of the Chiltern Way. These fragments of unimproved grassland combined with pockets of light woodland, scrub and some decent hedgerows are classic habitat for butterflies and moths. Even so I think I have seen more butterflies round here than ever before. Perhaps my timing has been just right or perhaps it's the weather we've been having or a side effect of the lockdown but something seems to have made it a good year.