Previously sent from my phone but disappeared into the ether.

HMP this morning:
In the orchard hedge, a female blackcap foraging in the ivy.

The nuthatch pair seem established, though he is still singing well. Previous years they have not been present in breeding months (March – June) but have now been around continuously since last July.

Despite its bad experience of predation in past years, the moorhen is again building a nest 7 metres up in a tree in the Japanese garden.

Jeff B