Today, Cecilia and I saw yellow butterfly we think was a 'brimstone', and a 'green-veined white' - or it could have been a 'wood white'. We need to get better at this identification business.

No unusual birds today, though our regular visitors are nice and varied. Today, as every day, we have seen blackbirds, dunnocks, robins, chaffinches, blue tits and great tits, goldfinches, greenfinches, starlings, and, of course, two or three fat wood pigeons.

And there was a frog 'sunning itself' in the pond.

Garden news 11 March 2007

There has been frogspawn in the pond for two weeks now.
Sadly, I have just had to clear the rotting, bloated remains of two dead (and beheaded?) frogs from the grass by the pond. I don't know what might have got them.
Nothing special in the bird community; blue tits, green finches, great tits on the feeders, blackbirds, wood pigeons, collared doves, and sparrows (or might they be dunnocks?) picking around under the feeders.
The little winter flowering tree has been a treat since before Christmas, and is still going strong with its blossom. It is now being challenged by the flowering prunus whose blossoms are starting to flower. Very nice.