Fledged birds seem to be everywhere now and some birds are far easier to see than usual with redstart families feeding frantically throughout the woodlands. Great spotted woodpeckers have been bringing their young close to our bird feeder, a lesser spotted...

...you will be struck by how quiet it is. Most of our woodland birds seem to have fledged young and have disappeared into the canopy-very different from last week when birds seemed to be everywhere. However, craning ones neck to look up to the canopy...

As I stood in Highnam Woods yesterday early afternoon I was very surprised to hear a Nightingale start up with a burst of song just up the nature trail a little way from the car park. A little later, further around the nature trail I heard a second bird...

Lodmoor has become the place in recent years to go and enjoy the mass of Common Terns that arrive there every spring to rear their young. Last week we were very shocked to find out that the whole breeding colony had disappeared from the reserve leaving...

It's pretty warm here today and finally there seem to be a few more insects out and about. I took a lunchtime stroll down the zig zag path and along the public footpath through our fields and its looking and sounding great. The fields are covered...