Ringed 2 stock dove chicks in a box in the wood today.

Saw a first juvenile green woodpecker of the year in the wood this evening. Don't know where the nest was - probably just outside the wood.

Had some good views of the buzzard chick in the nest just outside the wood in the last week or so. It's getting quite big now and won't be long fledging. It's mother is getting very defensive now and is swooping at me if I go anywhere near!

Ringed a brood of 4 song thrush chicks.

Ringed 5 spotted flycatcher chicks. (See pic)

Also saw a grass snake near the stream.

Ringed 7 goldcrest chicks, 5 bullfinch chicks and 4 blackbird chicks today!

Goldcrest chick

Bullfinch chick

Juvenile marsh tit caught netting today.

An impressive stinkhorn!

Light Emerald moth (or similar!)

Ringed 2 stock dove chicks in 2 boxes and a brood of 4 song thrushes today.

Stock dove chick

Saw my first juvenile coal tit and juvenile great spotted woodpecker of 2015 in the wood, and yet another red kite above the wood - they're becoming almost common now!

Some sort of bug with very long antennae.

Found 2 squashed magpies on the road near the wood, a few yards apart - at least one of them a recently fledged juvenile. Strangely reminiscent of archaeopteryx in a dismal way. Just another little tragedy filed under 'roadkill'.

Great tit chicks close to fledging in boundary pole.

Ringed 4 blackcap chicks and 4 song thrush chicks. My only chiffchaff nest has failed. Saw a family of long tailed tits with half a dozen or so juveniles - made a nice change from finding successive scragged nests earlier in the year.

Saw my first juvenile blue tits in the wood this year, probably from a nearby tit box. Found a 5th great spotted woodpecker nest, with noisy chicks.

Saw 2 red kites above the wood - they are suddenly becoming much more numerous in the local area.

Ringed 8 blackcap chicks in 2 nests.

Saw first juvenile great tit this year, also a juv blackbird. Several greenfinches feeding on wych elm seeds. Found another great spotted woodpecker nest in a cherry tree - the 4th I've found so far.

Empty robin's nest - found it with well grown chicks a few days ago, I don't think they were far away as I could hear the adults alarm calling.

Crime scene: sparrowhawk v great tit?

Robin brood ringed yesterday.

A few hornets flying about in the last couple of days.

Great tit nest in a metal boundary pole. They nest there every year.

Hawthorn in blossom

Scragged wren's nest

Ringed 5 robin chicks today.

Saw first juvenile robin and blackcap of the year in the wood today.

Blue tit chicks in a natural nest hole at the bottom of a tree

Heard a cuckoo calling near the wood today - my first of the year.

Ringed a brood of 4 blackcap chicks.

Abandoned blackbird nest on ground - now have no active blackbird nests in the wood that I know of. They seem to have pretty much stopped breeding at the moment.

Bracket fungus

Ringed 3 chaffinch chicks (nest pictured) - unfortunately the nest was predated the next day!

Ringed 4 blackcap chicks - first of the year.

Predated robin nest with 5 eggs.

Chaffinch nest with chicks on trunk of oak.

Blue tit brooding chicks

Hawthorn blossom

Finally found a chiffchaff nest, 5 eggs I think.

 Wren's nest

The only contents of a goldfinch nest today was this dead chick with a bulging crop. Found 2 blackcap nests - have 6 in total now but still cant find any chiffchaff nests!

Song thrush nest in construction (day 3).

Headless great tit in nest box!

Blackbird nest with 5 eggs

Song thrush nest in construction (started yesterday).

Had a look in most of the tit boxes today. 12 are occupied by blue or great tits, including this blue tit nest with 7 eggs (one of them white!)

Orange tip butterfly

Blue tit nest in a box with 7 eggs

Ringed 6 blackbird chicks in two nests.

A soporific hornet

Golden oak

Soloman's Seal coming into flower

Chaffinch nest predated and scragged

Ringed 5 song thrush chicks and 2 blackbird chicks.

Found first blackcap nest of the year.

Ringed 4 song thrush chicks and 3 blackbird chicks.

Saw a buzzard stood on a possible nest in the wood this evening. Another pair are nesting just outside the wood.

Crab apple blossom

Ringed 5 blackbird chicks in two nests today. Also found this queen wasp busy chewing!

Predated song thrush nest

Wych elm seeds

Cuckoo flowers

Wasp gathering wood!

Goldcrests nest building in ivy on trunk of oak tree. Blackbird nest ringed on 12th now empty, hopefully the first fledged chicks of the year.

Yellow archangel flowering now. Also a bee fly on a cuckoo flower

Have found about 42 thrush nests so far in the wood this year, of which at least 19 have already failed!