I was standing by the sink making our early morning cup-of-tea-in-bed when I glanced across the road and saw a roe deer not twenty metres away looking back at me. It was shortly joined by....
....another, at which point they seemed to panic as, somehow, they had managed to get themselves on the wrong side of the fence.
After breakfast we set off up the hill for a brisk walk but stopped to watch the 'white rabbit' which was evidently enjoying its breakfast at the top of the Rabbit Field, and it was as we were watching it and then admiring....
....a very smart male chaffinch that we spotted two swallows swooping across the field.
I can't believe that they will stay with us. We've seen these early swallows before and have wondered whether they're passing through, heading for remote northern places like the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
The number of willow warblers seems to increase every time we walk up the hill but they're also increasingly difficult to photograph as so many of the singing trees the males favour, such as birch, are coming into leaf, so shortly they'll 'disappear' completely.
The gorse is now in exuberant flower. I don't think I have ever seen such a mass of flowers and I really do wonder what its purpose is, for there seem to be very few insects attracted to it - in fact, the only butterflies we saw, which I think were....
....green-veined whites, were concentrating on the dandelions.
As we were on our way home we registered another first for the year, a common lizard. That it was out and about suggests that the adders may also be making an appearance. I would like to see some adders this year.
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