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New young leaves just beginning to occlude the sky #UKSpring #WealdWay #1hrfromLondon

New young leaves just beginning to occlude the sky #UKSpring #WealdWay #1hrfromLondon

Sat on the edge of my pond hole (not a euphemism) drinking coffee while being serenaded by birds. I’ve been visited by two plump bumblebee queens and the ranunculus corms I planted are coming through.
#UKSpring

Sat on the edge of my pond hole (not a euphemism) drinking coffee while being serenaded by birds. I’ve been visited by two plump bumblebee queens and the ranunculus corms I planted are coming through.
#UKSpring

I've seen hawthorn in blossom for the first time this season, I've got washing on the line, and we've had no rain for 2 days now. Could this be it? Are we springing right now?
#UKspring

I've seen hawthorn in blossom for the first time this season, I've got washing on the line, and we've had no rain for 2 days now. Could this be it? Are we springing right now?
#UKspring

Lightest dusting of frost on the stonecrop (Hylotelephium) this morning.
#UKSpring

Lightest dusting of frost on the stonecrop (Hylotelephium) this morning.
#UKSpring

An early Nightingale - my earliest ever? - singing in Abbots Wood, nr Hailsham, around 250m south of the lake.

Many Chiffchaffs, Coal Tits and Great Spotted Woodpeckers calling, with a couple of Mistle Thrushes, Treecreepers and Siskins heard, and a single Firecrest singing.

A patch of Scarlet Elf Cups among the mosses and damp dead wood.

#SussexBirding ##Sussex #birding #ukspring

The song of the blackbird is mellow, unhurried and rich. It’s varied, but not exhaustingly so (hello, song thrush).

Ornithologist W H Hudson described it as ‘nearer to human music than any other bird song’, which leads us to notice that the register is lower that many other songbirds, in the range of human speech.

You can whistle along to a blackbird.

https://shriekoftheweek.substack.com/p/shriek-of-the-week-blackbird-221

#birdsong #ukspring

At least 3, perhaps 5 Great White Egrets, across Horse-eye and Down, 3 Little and a Cattle Egret at White Dyke farm, a Shelduck on Down scrape, and my first Chaffinch song of the year. #imbolc #sussex #sussexbirding #ukspring #PevenseyLevels

The song thrushes have been singing long and loud since New Year, but the blackbird song that joined them on the weekend was my first of the year. All in the last light of the day. Five minutes later - complete silence. #ukspring #birdsong #evensong #Hailsham #sussex