Common Morel has appeared this spring after not being recorded here for many years, it is a culinary delicacy at its best when it first emerges, so this one will be past its best.
A clear bright start to the day with some offshore haze. There are only a few spring records of Reed Bunting at Landguard, this morning there was a male in front of the Obs. Late morning a Jay was seen going into the Holm Oaks, Jay were not recorded at Landguard at all last year, then just before noon a Red-rumped Swallow was seen feeding above the Holm Oaks and then went South.
Brown tail caterpillars have survived the winter in vast numbers on the Butts and will soon start exploding out of their winter "nests"
9 birds ringed: Chiffchaff 3, Blackcap 2, Blackbird 1, Firecrest 1, Jay 1, Linnet 1.