Near perfect conditions on my local patch around the woodland burial ground and adjacent Gooseman's Field yielded very little in the way of butterflies: holly blue, speckled wood, large and small white and male and female orange tip. With temperatures up to 24C and very light wind I was expecting to fine small heath and large skipper, both of which have normally emerged by this date. Birds were much more plentiful with 26 species, the most notable beingmsong thrush, mistle thrush carrying food for chicks, chiffchaff, whitethroat, green woodpecker and sparrowhawk. Gooseman's Field is beginning to look very summery with grasses growing up, large areas of birdsfoot trefoil glowing gold and plenty of yellow rattle.
Meadow Foxtail
Oxeye Daisy
Speckled Wood
Yellow Rattle
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