With spring in full flow lots of the wildlife is busy doing springy-stuff!

 

From incubating, or feeding young...
  All together - "awwwwww"! Adorable lapwing chick by John Daly.

Fingers crossed that the lapwings do well this year! So far there is a number of birds incubating and some have hatched already!

  This amazing kingfisher merge is by Perry Andrews who has done a clever thing by stitching together three pictures!

The kingfishers are currently feeding the young that hatched about 8 days ago. The adults are being seen taking fish into the bank to feed those hungry young.

 

 

to the plethora of minibeasts basking in the cordite store...

          Fabulous minibeasts by Jo Collins

  Peacock butterfly by Michael Frankling

 

 

to the other fabulous wildlife that are starting to show nicely as the weather is getting warmer...
 Common lizard by Lee Spence

  An adorable water vole by Paul Smith

 

 

and some are still singing!

  Reed warbler by John Daly

   Sedge warbler by David Dent

These two pictures are a really nice identification tool... You can see the difference if you can see the birds (note the defined eye stripe of the sedge warbler), but just hearing them (arrrgggghhh)!
I can not get the two sounds, I'll start to get it just at the end of the season when they stop singing and then forget everything by the next year! I know that the sedge is random and scratchy, compared to the more rythmic reed warbler... but for some reason I just can't get it! (Maybe I should come along to the Dawn Chorus walks!)  

 Check out this fab video by Clive Watts