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Robin's butterfly calendar

JANUARY 7 Small tortoiseshell at Bird's Farm, my small Cambridgeshire farm

MARCH 16 Brimstone, farmhouse garden

MARCH 27 Peacock (left), farmyard

MARCH 30 Speckled wood, farmhouse garden

APRIL 3 Large white and comma, Bird's Farm vegetable garden

APRIL 17 Small white, Bird's Farm vegetable garden

Orange tip (), grass meadow at Bird's Farm

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