The change in weather has got some migrants appearing on the patch with the first Cuckoo(82) calling on an early morning walk.Later that afternoon a Wheatear(83) was found in amongst the rows of apple trees in the orchard next to the lake.

                                                          Yesterdays Wheatear

The good fortune continued this morning with a Lesser Whitethroat(84) in the hedge by the pumping station and down at the lake the first Reed Warbler(85) was singing in reeds in the SW corner.
This evening 2 Lesser Whitethroats were found (1 at the top of Kirkins and 1 in the hedge in Gibbet Lane) and the Cuckoo was calling.
Bee flies have appeared in good numbers and I witnessed two male Orange Tips attending a female in Furnace Lane.

Bee Flies

Orange Tips