Eglwys Fach Birds Butterflies and Moths

The recent weather seems to have generated a lot of activity around home with lots of butterflies, Holly Blue and Brimstones together with the more common Small Tortoiseshell Orange Tips and Green-veined Whites. Sparrows and Blue Tits furiously gathering nesting material and fighting over nest box occupation with the Blue Tits winning. A special delight has been a male Blackcap performing brilliantly around every shrub in the garden but no sign of a female response yet. Having been away Thurs and Friday we returned yesterday evening to a Hummingbird Hawkmoth our first for three years and by far away the earliest, in the past all our sitngs have been in late July and August. Just off to see if I can get Grasshopper Warbler.