Butterflies

Not wishing to disagree with the expert on BBC1 this morning, but we live on a 100 hectare stud at Newmarket.

Because of their layout, with paddocks, trees and rides between everything, we have noticed that over the last few years, as the stud has developed, that the number of butterflies and moths has increased significantly. But so has other wildlife, such as badgers, deer, hares and birds, including lots of the supposedly rare yellow-hammer.

The Newmarket area is becoming a significant wildlife habitat, but surveys never include it. Could this be because, it disproves the decline the doom-mongers are trying to show?