You get a really clear feel of the layout of the wood at this time of year as you can through the wood for long distances with no, or very little, brush getting in the way.
Singing birds included wood-pigeon, robin, songthrush, blackbird, chaffinch, great tit and blue tit, accompanied by drumming (and squawking) Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Carrion Crows and Pheasant.
There were bumblebees and some hoverflies on the first sallow catkins I came to but I saw no others, only midges, for the rest of the walk. The moss was jewel-like, the honeysuckle was starting up in leaf and the bluebells were up, promising a fine show in only a month or so.
A Blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus ssp obscurus was producing a slightly unusual song, and I tried to convince myself (using Xeno-canto) that evening that it was a Coal Tit, Periparus ater ssp britannicus, but the trill is only given by the blue tit.
Singing birds included wood-pigeon, robin, songthrush, blackbird, chaffinch, great tit and blue tit, accompanied by drumming (and squawking) Greater Spotted Woodpeckers, Carrion Crows and Pheasant.
There were bumblebees and some hoverflies on the first sallow catkins I came to but I saw no others, only midges, for the rest of the walk. The moss was jewel-like, the honeysuckle was starting up in leaf and the bluebells were up, promising a fine show in only a month or so.
A Blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus ssp obscurus was producing a slightly unusual song, and I tried to convince myself (using Xeno-canto) that evening that it was a Coal Tit, Periparus ater ssp britannicus, but the trill is only given by the blue tit.
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