ICE ICE BABY - Vanilla Ice

 After a period of freezing and frosty weather, on the day the temperature rocketed to a balmy +9C bringing with it the likes of a

Mackerel Sky
and within the Moth Trap c7

ICHNEUMON WASPs
along with a further hand full of

DOR BEETLEs
pointing to the fact that Insect Life is emerging and who knows maybe a Moth or 2 next??

Otherwise, both ponds (despite the headline) have returned to open water with a

First for the Year

REED BUNTING
to be found at the

IRRIGATION POND
while the

GRAVEL PIT
held the first of the 'early' returning Waterfowl a brace of male

MUTE SWANs

along with a pair of
MALLARD
while passing overhead a

Stranger in the Camp
not an aircraft that we have ever noted here before!.... while within the Solar Panel Compounds no surprise to find a couple of

MISTLE THRUSH

Book-Ending the overnight excavations of

Mister Mole and Co.

and to end today's epistle all of the Crab Apple Trees now lie just about bare while the

Flood Plain of the River Stour have now receded to a more normal level.