Another beautiful morning in unusually sunny West Wales. A quick walk around the reserve on my day off (before compulsory gardening duties) allowed me to enjoy this marvellous place at leisure. Sitting on a bench overlooking the peat bog at Ynys Edwin willow warblers, chiffchaff and sedge warblers sang away and were joined by the reeling of a grasshopper warbler which amazed me by hopping onto the top of a bramble bush and giving me excellent views before it scuttled back into cover again. Tree pipits parachuted overhead and stonechats chacked away amongst the fragrant, coconut smelling gorse. At the Breakwater hide a few ringed plover, dunlin and whimbrel fed on the sand banks in the distance and on the flooded fields the other side of the hide redshank and lapwing displayed noisily. The highlight though were five ruff, some starting to look rather gaudy in breeding plumage, which flew in and started to feed on muddier patches at the edge. I will now happily spend a few hours weeding re-juvenated with the sounds and scents of spring..