Arrival of the Brambling

This male Brambling was caught during today's bird-ringing session. Brambling spend the summer in Scandinavia and are winter visitors to Britain. This bird will be the first of many to arrive over the next few weeks.

Also seen today were 3 Teal and a Woodcock. There were 210 birds ringed including 39 Lesser Redpoll.

Here is nature's re-cycling in evidence. These fungi were photographed today on the rotten wood of a fallen ash tree. Their delicate caps were shining out in a shaft of sunlight within a shady glade.