Sunshine over the weekend

There were clear blue skies and sunshine all over the weekend. The temperature got to 17 degrees.

I started the morning off with cleaning out and filling up the bird feeders. We are getting a good variety of birds on the different feeders. 

On one of our dog walks we were looking at footprints in the mud as the puddles were drying out.

These are a rodents footprints like a rat

Roe deer

Muntjac deer

This badger footprint was in a patch of mud about 500m away from the nearest sett, mostly they don't go far but they can travel upto a mile looking for food or if they have been bullied out of their sett.

Over head two Red Kites were circling, we could hear them making a mating call.

A friend of ours told us that they had two muntjac deers visiting their garden. I managed to get some photos and hoping to return to get more when they are asleep under the bushes.

On Sunday we saw lots of butterflies, including three Brimestones, a couple of cabbage whites, peacock butterflies and small tortoiseshell. We also saw a weasel running across the road between the gate ways to the fields but it was too fast to take a photo.

The whole headgerow is covered with Blackthorn blossom

The sunshine really shows up the colours on this starling

There were also a few bumble bees around like this one in my nan's conservatory that we had to let out of the window

Red tailed bumblebee