What's flying near you?

First cuckoo of the year heard . Not spotted it yet.

Sparrows eating the buds of the apple trees    hope there's some left.

Speckled Wood and Orange Tip butterflies.

I've just seen an orange tip butterfly. First I've seen for couple of years . A pied wagtail is walking round the garden as I type

The May Bugs/Cockchafers arrived a day early  - yesterday! They were flying into the windows, annoying the dogs. Spud did his usual trick of eating one. 

Eeww!

Mummy greater spotted woodpecker visited with a youngster. Youngster had obviously been told to have a bath but wasn't quite sure how. It had a bird bath, a waterfall, a water saucer and a pond within feet but it tried to bath in a tablespoon of water on the pond surround paving. It finally found the waterfall after nearly falling headfirst into the pond. Mum found a peanut and tempted it away from the water, probably safer that way.

I saw the duck momma with her three little ducklings in the pond today! How sweet

And other birds identified only via the app Merlin Bird ID: great tit, eurasian blackbird, eurasian blackcap, nuthatch and willow warbler. It is amazing how many birds we have here, and I have no idea what they are from their song. This app is such good fun

A Wren's building a nest in the lean-too outside the kitchen door, so lots of in and out trips.

A Sparrow Hawk and 2 Buzzards over head just now.