The Cetti's Warbler

If you are really fortunate on a good day, the first and only sighting you get of a Cetti's as it disappears into the bushes is like the first image below. This is certainly my experience normally. This is usually after you have been alerted to its presence by the rather loud and sharpe call it makes.

What most of us would really like to see is the kind of images like those below, which I shot at Lodmoor Reserve this week.

Local Walk - Chiffchaff Portraits

Another local walk produced some portrait images of a Chiffchaff who just wanted to be photographed.

A Flag Iris

Portrait images of a Chiffchaff

Germander Speedwell are showing now.

Lesser Celandines

Wren amongst the branches.

Great Tit

Mr Mallard searching about a small pond that he and his mate have taken up residence.

A Woodie resting in the branches.

"Can I get GB News on this."

Mostly Wren

Mostly Wren, but I have started this Post with this Dunnock that was adorned with young Hawthorn leaves. 

On this walk the Wren featured in several locations. 

They were singing from various vantage points which is normal behaviour at this time of year.

Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower)

Some distance across an open field this Roe Deer was feeding along the hedgerow and eventually lying down to rest in the relatively warm sunshine.

Lady's Smock (Cuckoo Flower)

Another bird featured on the walk was the Robin that was also having much to sing about.

A Blackbird showing evidence on its beak that it has been digging into soil for food.

The Chiffchaff is very prominent now with its monotonous call normally given from high vantage points on tall trees.