Visit Radipole Lake Reserve - Cetti's Warbler

A walk around Radipole Lake Reserve revealed more butterfly activity and an appearance of the often heard, but rarely seen Cetti's Warbler.

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Brimstone Butterfly (Male)

You cannot hide from me Mr Cetti's.

Cetti' Warbler

Blossom of the Hawthorn Tree.

Apple Blossom

Brimstone Butterflies

Herb Robert Flower

Marsh Marigolds

Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower)

Buttercup

Great White Egret

Flutters, Reed Buntings and more Blackcaps

A walk around Radipole Lake Reserve revealed butterfly activity for a nice change.

This was also complimented by Reed Buntings and more Blackcap action.

This Large White Butterfly posed nicely on a Dandelion.

This Small White Butterfly below had recently emerged and was drying out on a leaf.

Underexposed shots of a Cuckoo Flower (Lady's Smock) always make a pleasant image.

This familier continuous repetitive call alerted me to look up high in a Hawthorn tree at this male Reed Bunting.

Finding grit on a pathway this male Chaffinch posed in the sunlight.

Another chance to see and photograph a male Blackcap was welcomed. 

A Grey Heron overflew my position as it was making its way to the other end of the Reserve.

 

Local Walk - Blackcap

A local walk proved that Spring has definitely arrived.

Red Campions and Greater Stitchwort can be found easily now along banks and hedgerows.

Even a few Bluebells are peeping through along the pathways that form part of a walk that I use.

I have heard a few male Blackcaps singing this year, but this was the first one that I was able to get a reasonable photo of.

Greater Stitchwort.

Lesser Celandine.

Bluebells

Not having a long lens with me on this occasion, I was unable to get close up shots of these Yellowhammers. I watched a number of them fly out from a tall hedgerow on to a cultivated field that had been recently sown. I didn't wish to disturb them by attempting a closer position. So these images are somewhat cropped.

Dunnocks are very active now in hedges and general woodland.