Rain and cloud cleared sufficiently by mid afternoon to allow the first butterfly transect of the season to be carried out. 1 Small Tortoiseshell put in an appearance!
2 Buzzard, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Blue tit, Great tit, Chaffinch, Wren, Jay, Carrion Crow, Chiffchaff, Robin, male and female Pheasant.
Leaf mines on Holly at gate – Holly Leaf Gall Fly (Phytomyza ilicis) – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/784910
Bluebells coming into flower C5b.
Added from ispot:
A lichen Aspicilia contorta – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/784914
A lichen Lepraria sp. – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/787673
Wall Screw-moss (Tortula muralis) – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/787652
Rough-stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/787660
(Further 2 mosses on pumphouse roof would need further examination for ID possibly Bryum pallescens and Ceratodon purpureus – http://www.ispotnature.org/node/787662).