Today turned out to be yet another mild and pleasant early spring day with mixed sun and cloud and temperatures of 14C despite a brisk south-easterly breeze. I was pleased to find some blue anemone in the cemetery, presumably escaped from a grave. Blackthorn was just beginning to come into flower in one or two spots but it is very slow; in many other locations it is now well out. Walking round the perimeter of the woodland burial ground, I became aware of a movement and then a quiet tseep, tseep call. A pair of bullfinches were feeding on blackthorn buds; a lovely find. On moving back into the cemetery I hoped, as always to find goldfinches and redpoll on the group of alders, but again no luck. However, the wind was now making its presence known, roaring like a distant surf in the line of poplars and reminiscent of the roaring of the Atlantic breakers rushing onto the beach at Sandwood Bay in the far north-west of Scotland and heard from a mile away.
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