I did a butterfly survey with my seven-year-old daughter Celestia, standing by our little pond. In five minutes we identified Red Admirals, Painted Ladies, Peacocks, Orange-Tips and a pair of Green-Veined Whites. These are all relatively common garden butterflies but as the season goes on I hope to see more unusual visitors to the garden.
Celestia has taken to the whole thing with great enthusiasm and now has a dedicated notebook. I have started to help her make nature notes of the sort that are subsequently useful (remembering for example to include the date, time of day, conditions, number of individuals spotted, what plant they were on, etc).
