06.04.07

Blue tits nesting in one of the boxes

12.04.07

Birds singing and buds breaking in warm sunshine

20.04.07

Lots of birdsong
Pair of great tits, robin, pigeon, chaffinch and magpie
Birds nest with 1 egg, inside tree guard with field maple
Peacock butterfly

20.04.07

Butterflies: brimstone, speckled wood, orange tip and whites - probably green-veined white, but they didn't settle
Field maple just coming into leaf

25.04.07

Blackcap and willow warbler singing - both these species appreciate young woodland and warm spring days!
Peacock and speckled wood butterflies
Hedge garlic is growing under the tree with the tawny owl box - this is one of the caterpillar food plants of the orange tip butterfly

27.04.07

Ginger cat asleep
Lots of apple blossom
2 pheasants heard
Blackbird singing
1 pigeon in hedge
2 partridges in field
Cowslips in wild flower patch