The #Swifts are back in Stockbridge, Hampshire!
Hampshire Swifts Hampshire Ornithological Society BTO

Swifts are on the way! 😀 And you could see one in the next week as a mass arrival is on the cards in the current weather conditions🌥️ Discover species to look out for in this week’s BirdTrack migration blog 👉 bit.ly/44jRqll #ornithology #swifts

📷© Philip Croft / BTO

The sedge has an edge - a striking broad creamy stripe above its eye, as I like to remember it.
Lots of sedge warblers, arriving from sub-Saharan Africa, are filling the air with their noisy, mimicking, rambling warble today here in Hampshire.
Hampshire Ornithological Society BTO Breeding Bird Surveys

Just look at those bronze eyes! Amphibian and Reptile Conservation HBIC

The swallows are streaming into Poole harbour this morning BTO

There are two types of people in the world, drains and radiators. The people that dumped this are drains in more ways than one! #FlyTipping makes me mad, not only a danger to the environment,nature&livestock, but ends up being a farmer's responsibility to clear/dispose of it!

Sound Up! 🔊 The red listed grasshopper warblers have arrived in Hampshire! This otherwise nondescript warbler, just arrived from Africa,is most easily identified by its grasshopper-like call. Also seen sedge,cettis,willow,reed warblers, no cuckoo. BTO Hampshire Ornithological Society Breeding Bird Surveys

I see you up there Nuthatch, singing your song! A charismatic & vocal woodland species with a range of whistles&calls. Nuthatches have been abundant on all sections of my recent Breeding Bird Surveys. They nest in holes,reinforcing the entrance with dried mud and lay up to eight eggs BTO

(1/4) This week, we have two species for the price of one to compare the trends of! Both Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are beginning to arrive in the UK for the summer. In the below image, Whitethroat is on the left and Lesser Whitethroat is on the right!

Another stunning morning doing dawn Breeding Bird Surveys for a farm/estate - part of ongoing annual monitoring. Highlight so far the red listed tree pipits. This male doing an impressive display, flying high then to parachute down whilst all the time singing its beautiful song BTO

...and so the dawn Breeding Bird Surveys begin on farmland! Such a great morning for it 🌄 lots on the record sheet already - yellowhmers, blackcap, linnet,raven,goldfinch,whitethroat....
Best time of the day to be out! #FarmingWithNature

Lots of butterflies have been spotted on the wing across the Farms in the #FarmerClusters - red admiral, comma, small tortoiseshell, brimstone, holly blue, small white, peacock and orange-tips.
What have you seen? Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Dan Hoare

Dogs and National Nature Reserves really don’t mix. A conservation grazing sheep that survived 2 previous dog attacks was finally killed by a third. Why do our best reserves still cater for dog owners ahead of nature and everyone else?

The bluebells are at their peak in Hampshire, my most favourite time of the year!
This woodland is actively managed rotational coppice with standards. Therefore always has a jaw-dropping show of ancient woodland indicators. Nice to see the coupes I cut years back looking good

Found a glow-worm (beetle!) larvae!
The larvae are voracious
predators,killing their prey(slugs/snails)by delivering a series of toxic bites, paralysing & eventually dissolving their soft body. It might ride on the snail's back in wait for the effects to happen. Grassland, Hants

I had heard #Beavers were on the Hampshire Avon, but now it's confirmed. Spotted at Christchurch, Dorset. Rewilding Britain Derek Gow (video sent by friend)

Pasqueflower Pulsatilla vulgaris, nearly in bloom. A rare plant in the UK (vulnerable) which is restricted to just a few chalk&limestone grasslands. Steeped in legend, it flowers at Easter, so it is known as the 'Anemone of Passiontide' BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife wildflowerhour

There is no let up: I gave a talk on farmland birds to a local gardening group last night. With the help of a farmer, I put up 27 nest boxes for Tree Sparrows this evening - that's 50 put up on this farm in the past month.

Misty day at Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve, lots to see & hear. But watching this sandwich tern hunting was a highlight. Spring firsts-whitethroat&reed warbler.
Some of the list: G.W.egret,avocet,lapwing,marsh harrier,shoveler,curlew,OC,redshank,swallow,linnet,goldfinch,cetti,raven, greenfinch

Picked a good day to go birding at the coast #SeaMist 🤦🏻
That noise reminds me of my childhood, my grandfathers house was on the Hamble and I listened to that pinging for years! Not sure that boat should be there though Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve