Out and about: patchwork....

Well: despite what you might have read elsewhere, my experience locally suggests that it's been a bad Spring for wild flowers, birds and insects....

There have been few if any large Dragons at most of my usual sites (the Fen, Hemblington Woods, Upton etc) and butterflies have been very thin on the ground.

Our garden is full of baby birds, but we won't be getting any Turtles: our neighbours have cut down their nest tree for no obvious reason....