Forty Jackdaws watched from the tree tops as I arrived. Two House Sparrows waited outside the centre, in the scrub, before presumably entering the corner of the building under the gutter. Peering through the fence both shrivelled a firm red Rosehips were seen. A Dunnock called from an Ash tree.
Small, tight buds were visible upon a Field Maple along with the old stalks of seed masts. One Carrion Crow called from the Small Copse whilst another responded from Reservoir Copse. Unusually, I found Jelly Ear on something other than Elder. I believed it was a dead stem of Willow. Outside the copse a Chaffinch sang from the top of a lichen clad Blackthorn. From the edge of Taskers Meadow, a pair of Magpies flew up. A potential breeding pair of Blackbirds were happy to observe. A pruned Sloe clung to the thorns whilst, every day there are more small patches of Blackthorn blossom and indications of great blooms to come. It was unusually seeing a Cormorant flying over the Copse.
In the distance a least some of the Hereford Cattle could be seen in their correct location! In Saxon I discovered what must now be my third patch of flowering Wild Parsnip. Upon an Ant Hill tiny white Bittercress flowers were seen. Many of the Ant Hills had been clearly pecked into presumably by a Green Woodpecker, but when? There were vibrantly coloured Mosses around Hay Rake quarr.
A Jay discretely skirted a hedgerow. As I walked past the Small Copse into the chill wind upon the Wares, I noticed a Hawthorn showing a good third of leaf cover. Briefly a Kestrel hover over the lip of the wares before heading east. Also heading west were a pair of high gliding Great Black Back Gulls. Off Anvil Point one lone fishing vessel was active some distance off shore. It was a surprise to see a solo Long Tailed Tit.