With warm weather the last couple of days it is becoming obviously spring like. The forsythia is out as are the celandines under my front hedge. Yesterday I saw two brimstone butterflies. I have just acquired a camera trap and it after two nights the only activity in the garden was the ginger cat that I disturbed when putting out on the first night. I am still seeing all the usual species in the garden although the numbers of goldfinches are way down.
Once upon a time you could find me birding on the Thames marshes almost every weekend through the winter. For various reasons I am now seldom able to travel to good birding sites. I am lucky, however, to live in the beautiful Chiltern Hills and this blog is to document the birds that I see on my own patch.