To get the ball rolling, apart from co-ordinating the recording of bird sightings on the commons, I'm also taking an interest in butterflies. We've recently been lucky enough to have some white admirals: this is a picture of one I took on School Common:

I was also quite pleased with this red admiral, taken from the new section of boardwalk leading to Scouts' pond:

And this is a small skipper (or possibly an Essex skipper) seen on the mixed grass area on the Warren Road side of the SSSI: