Summer heat is finally here.

In last nights moth trap - Poplar Hawk Moth

Lapwing

Update on the Lapwing position.
One pair has 2 chicks - spotted today looking like half sized birds.
The other nest failed just before hatching was due - reason unknown - but the female now seems to be sitting on more eggs!
3 adults today chasing off a buzzard.

Redstart

A very pleasant surprise - a female Redstart in the garden just now!

Butterflies

Really good numbers of Brimstone, Red Admiral, Peacock, Small Torts already this year. First Orange Tip was on 15th April.
Yesterday (27/4) saw my first Speckled Wood

Lapwing

Good news from Kaat at the GWCT is that both our nests have hatched and the chicks are now on the grassland. This means I can now cultivate up half of the Stone curlew plot on the first so keeping with the management trial requested by the RSPB.