Spent the morning in the garden and heard the
bees before I could see where they were. Twenty or more busy on the
crocuses in the warm spring sunshine. Also first queen buff tailed
bumble bee of the year but it didn’t stay long.
After lunch my wife and
I had a good walk along the Misbourne Valley from Little Missenden to
Shardeloes in the warm sunshine. Good to see a kingfisher, but only briefly, and
later just before reaching the lake a pair of reed buntings enjoying the sun.
A good
variety of wildfowl on the lake including mute swan, mallard, gadwall, tufted duck
and teal. Common and black headed gull with one lesser blacked backed
seen, great crested and little grebe. Heron and little egret and of
course Canada geese.
At the cricket pitch we heard the tap tap tapping
of a nuthatch and looking up we soon found it, searching the bark for tasty bites.
Stewart.
Images Copyright : Stewart Dennis.
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