Listening To Birdsong

I wasn't up at dawn but it was beautiful and misty with a heavy dew at 7:00 am and the birds were singing lustily on International Dawn Chorus Day. When Mishka and I went for our first proper walk round the garden I could hear a blackcap singing but just couldn't pinpoint it. A grey squirrel was motionless as if it was listening too. I've decided to make it my blip as the image conveys the beauty of the sunshine through the field maple leaves.

I left Mish in the garden and went for a walk around the nursery for the first time in a while. I was pleased to find some of my old friends, including a female brimstone, a cardinal beetle, an immature damselfly on a bramble, a superb ant-hill hoverfly, a latticed heath moth and a common malachite beetle. I've included some oak catkins. Back in the garden I shot a dock bug which was very interested in a pair of mating box bugs.