Spring is in the Air

Spring has really kicked in with T shirt weather in Suffolk today. 2012 nest finding has been very successful so far and includes Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Treecreeper, Chaffinch, Wren and Long-tailed Tit, quite a few with eggs already. I really enjoyed photographing a Treecreeper frantically collecting nest material today, the nest is in an old outbuilding. Photo's below also show a stunning complete Long-tailed Tit nest, a pair of Egyptian Geese with young which we noticed along the Deben estuary at Melton this morning and a Hen Harrier which flew past us as we drove towards Bawdsey 2 days ago.

At the feeding station . . .

A few Suffolk garden bird shots taken this morning before the darkness and rain set in again and the temperature plummeted!  A Tawny Owl was very vocal around 13.00, a female Blackcap which has been present in our Woodbridge garden for several days now continues to eat apples and attack any other birds who try to feed and a Peregrine flew over my car and headed off down the river at Melton.