During the last few days the temperature has started to rise a little.
Although there has been a lot of rain and the rivers are still high.
It does feel like Spring may have just about arrived.
That said, my recent walk was a mixture of cold wind and threatening storms.
Below (The Red Admiral) is the first butterfly that I have been able to photograph this year.
I have in recent days observed several male Brimstone butterflies on the wing.
The Red Admiral is generally a migrant species that arrives from Europe in the Spring.
There is evidence that some are now overwintering in UK, in the South Coast area.
This one could be either.
I photographed it pitched very high up on a Blackthorn tree where it was basking in the warm sun.
The Nuthatch nest that I featured last Spring has been visited frequenly by a pair of Nuthatch that could well be the same pair. Again some repairs to the hole in the tree will be necessary.
A rare sight was this Song Thrush searching for food along the waters edge.
A very uncooperative male Blackcap was singing away high up in a tree.
In fact this was the only sighting I got and the rest of the tme it remained in thick blackthorn branches.
Greater Stitchwort
This Chiffchaff was sun bathing and drying out after a shower and preening.
More Chiffchaff images.
The ever present Wren.
This Grey Squirrel was searching for food on the ground in a small woodland copse.
The pair of Long-tailed Tits that I have mentioned recently are still constructing their intricate nest.
A sight witnessed at this time is the Dunnock which sings away on a prominent perch.
