Wednesday 15 April
I saw my first ever Green Woodpecker today flying across the freshly ploughed field down our lane.
It swoops like a washing line propped up in the middle using what seems like a split second of flapping but is probably about twenty wingbeats each time.
Our lesser-spotted woodpecker is a regular visitor to the back garden munching on one of the peanut feeders whilst the grey squirrel bosses the other; all of the birds take a backseat when these big guys are in town.
Another beautiful sunny day but the wind has changed direction and is coming from the north-east making things much chillier.
The experts are talking about seeing signs of the social-distancing impacting on the numbers of people being be admitted to hospital but a row is brewing about the death figures being misleading as they only include hospital deaths – this won’t go away anytime soon.
The Bald Birder 