I have been on the meadows frequently during the last couple of months. Many birds are well into their breeding season. There are a pair of Blue tits in one of the new nest boxes and other boxes may be occupied too. A male Whitethroat has been singing from the central hedge and is almost certainly breeding.
Butterflies seem to be off to a slow start this year with just a few Orange Tips and other whites noted.
For some reason there seems to be no dragonfly activity in the pond so far. It may be due to the fact that it completely dried up for a while last year and we may have lost most of last years larvae. We may have to wait for the pond to be recolonised and hopefully as it is now a bit deeper in places it won't dry out quite so quickly.
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Shame about the dragonflies. Nice to know the bird boxes are being occupied.
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