If you startle a brown butterfly into the air while walking through a grassy field at this time of year it will probably be a Meadow Brown.
As you can see it has an orange splash on each forewing with a little black and white eye-spot.
When it perches, low in the grass stems, the underside of the wing shows more orange and a lighter brown. If you look very carefully you may be able to make out a tiny black dot in the middle of the wing.
It is one of our commonest butterflies and will even fly on overcast days,
which is a cheery thing.
By the end of the month it will be joined by Gatekeeper butterflies - more on them later.
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