Signs of spring

It’s been a funny few weeks: we both came down with COVID just before Easter and have found it a hard work getting back into the swing of things.  Fortunately when we were struggling to get out, it seemed that all we had to do was send out for delivery of some artificial but fun sustenance – we managed to add White-tailed Eagle, introduced into the Isle of Wight  onto the house list and the day after had six of Knepp’s plastic White Storks.  Not the wildest birds, but still spectacular.

Things are beginning to get back to normal (well, we’re walking as far as ever, just much slower).  Here’s a few pictures from the last few weeks.

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Corn Bunting
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Bee Fly
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White Storks. A rubbish photo, but not bad out of the bedroom window.
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It was Easter, so of course there was Chocolate... Tip
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Emerging from the National Park into another world.
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A Skylark wonders where the grass went.
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Pheasants are common around us, but I'm not sure we have had one on the lawn before.
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Dawn at Amberley Wild Brooks with the dawn chorus in full swing.
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Bluebells
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Amberley and Pulborough Brooks had loads of Sedge Warblers.
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You ain't seen me...