Heavy rain continued throughout the month with only a few warm dry days.
SIGHTINGS
Birds: Carrion Crows, Wood Pigeons, Magpies, Stock Doves, Jays, Buzzards, Heron, Mallard mDucks, Green/Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Cuckoo, Nuthatchs, Treecreepers, Stonechats, Tree Pipits, Siskins, Reed Buntings, Chiff Chaffs, Blackcaps, Willow Warblers, Blackbirds, Robins, Song Thrushes, Mistle Thrushes, Wrens, Goldcrests, Coal/Blue/Great/Long-tailed Tits, Chaffinches, Bullfinches, Goldfinches, Greenfinches,.
Mammals: Grey Squirrels, Roe Deer, Foxes, Pipistrelle Bats.
Reptiles: Slow Worms, Common Lizards, Grass Snake
Plants in flower: Gorse, Flowering Currant, Broom, Laurel, Bog Myrtle, Primrose, Hazel, Willow.
Butterflies: Orange Tip, Holly Blue, Large White, Small White, Peacock, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood.
Insects: Bees, Wasps, Flies.
Pond Life: Pond Skaters, Sticklebacks, Whirlygig Beetles.
Tree Pipits have returned from migration to the cenral heathland and heard calling from pine tree tops.
Pipistrelle Bats were detected at dusk by mid-April.
The call of a Cuckoo was heard late in the month from the north side of the Site.
