Ivinghoe Beacon & Aylesbury Vale, from Whipsnade Downs, Bedfordshire.

A pleasant walk last Sunday over the chalk grasslands of Whipsnade Downs, searching for Duke of Burgundy butterflies, a rapidly declining species in the UK. Pleased to find more than twenty specimens. Also spotted Green Hairstreak, Red Admiral and Dingy Skipper butterflies.

BLUEBELLS IN HAY WOOD ON STOPSLEY COMMON, LUTON

A fine display of bluebells last Sunday morning, on a hot and sunny May day, in this small and relatively unknown but picturesque wood in Luton.