The Iceland Gull lured in by ploughing in Top Fields looks as though it could easily have been the individual recorded at the Bill last weekend © Roger Hewitt:
Changes afoot on the bird front remains very subtle for the moment; the likes of the wintering Purple Sandpipers are still on station © Ted Pressey:
...but, for example, out to sea the Common Gulls are no longer lingering/feeding winterers but active migrants © Keith Pritchard:
...whilst overhead Rooks are beginning to appear after having been absent all winter © Keith Pritchard:
Also from today, Ken Dolbear sent us through a photo of 3 Scarlet Tiger moth caterpillars basking in the sun in his garden at Easton this morning; we're always surprised at how successful a colonist this species has proved to be since it first reached the island in the early 1990s: although usually thought of as an inhabitant of damp places, it's now become really widespread in what's got to be one of the driest places in Dorset:
