The Joys of Spring

I timed my bike ride to intercept the Kingsbury to Immingham oil train through Rolleston at 13.56. Standing on the station [briefly], the sounds of spring were all around. The warblers are all checking in - chiff-chaffs and blackcaps are never backward in coming forward and now joined by willow warblers, who always seem to turn up a bit later but before the common whitethroats. Linnets in striking breeding plumage flew over the racecourse road. We put up a nest box in the garden and a pair of blue tits settled in the following day.