Has the Spring Sprung?

Well, with the new month having crept in, with it came a

Little New Joy

as to kick off day 2 we found an

 EARLY THORN

in among the half dozen cluster of usual suspects

A Butterfly-like Insect which is not given to opening its wings while at perch,

we have to content ourselves with a side projection

 Another Lamb on the loose but this time with great skill and dexterity

it was me who managed to repatriate it with Mum

A very sunny and warm afternoon was ideal for another shot at 

Pheromoning for Emperor Moth 

which enroute, overlooking the already crowded stand, our trip coincided with the arrival of the

 BIG BOYS

 "There's a 747 coming out of the Night" - Saxon"

with c5 in all being squeezed into the already cramped conditions.

Made a bit of a cod's of the video but it was certainly the sound of

Cash Registers Chinking

once main engines were shut down.

Otherwise, a brace of

SKYLARK

on the heath were the birds of the day as we don't remember ever recording them landed there before?

Seemingly well satisfied with the large grassy areas of the adjoing Airport itself there is little need to stray.

The Coot still sits firmly at the Irrigation Pond on what we hope to be eggs and which may form the first new arrivals of the year for the Recording area.
Otherwise, the

 LITTLE GREBEs
are getting 'in the mood'

 as chasing each other from one end of the
Gravelpit
to the other, and yes he 'will' catch her eventually!

but not this time sonny

Now where's she gone?
More peromoning for Emporor Moth in the bright and warm Spring sunshine,
 but again without success

 while

PIED WAGTAIL
 find time for a spruce up

 and a feed while the

 MEADOW PIPITS
just stick to the later

(now you see it, now you don't)
in the now abandoned 
Solar Panel Compound
with the Sheep having been move to another area.
While there's no knowing when the next addition will be made to the list,
it seems somehow rewarding when it does, so the small squadron of c4

 SHELDUCK

 flying across a clear blue sky

was a welcome sight.

Before leaving the compoud some bird activity was noted across
the area of 'scrub' known as

The Triangle
and where 

STONECHAT
are only occassionally seen despite this ideal habitat away from the Heath

they have never yet been recorded breeding here

this pair looked like they were into the throughs of it already?
We will be watching!