Spotted

It was very warm this morning, so I was up and out at Sculthorpe Moor by 9am. I was told by another visitor that I'd missed by half an hour, a kingfisher sitting on a 'No Fishing' sign in a pond outside the first hide - that would have been a good blip! Lots of birds singing, but only a few were visible - I suspect they'd had an early breakfast and were resting up as the temperature was already in the early 20s. The birds I did get a photo of were a bit too far away. So instead you have a photo of a muntjac in the long grass outside the furthest hide, it had just spotted me! The temperature got up to 27C today. I sat in the garden this afternoon periodically, it was too hot to sit out for long. The blue tit hatchlings have been finding it too hot again today - leaning out of the nest bowl or crawling out and with their beaks open as if they're panting. The remaining eight are doing well though. I've never seen the female not sitting on the nest before when they're still hatchlings, this heat is weird for early May. 

I forgot to mention the other day that one of my neighbours came over when I arrived home to tell me that a muntjac had been desperately trying to get into the field at the corner of my bungalow, but obviously couldn't given the new fence. It was really panicking evidently and I found it had broken several branches on a holly bush there - I hope it didn't hurt itself. One of the risks of not being able to do all the perimeter fencing at once is that the wildlife can find a way out, but struggle to find a way back in.