Record shot of a Large Tortoiseshell (N polychloros) today, high in an early flowering Prunus-tree. From the adult hibernators I only didn't see the Small tortoiseshell (A urticae), once the most abundant, in these extremely warm early spring days.

I think the air heating up and rising over the sea took water vapour with it, which met warmer air above.

Serried ranks of planting in the local millennium wood.

Ukrainian toilet paper called: “Agreement with Russia” 😂😂😂

Tens of thousands gather for Serbian anti-government protests channel4.com/news/tens-of-t…

I think this is a good one to sign. Many projects are being reassessed. No one can plan. action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/pe…

The view down my garden. Both Bulbous Buttercup and Cowslips introduced to my lawn and doing well. Hay Rattle will follow, with BFT and others.

The 'picture postcard village' in Essex named one of Britain's most beautiful Source: Colchester Gazette search.app/zRxsW Yes, but it looks less so when there are cars parked everywhere. Shared via the Google App

At last at Great Holland pits. I feared that there may have been zero this year.

Bilberry bumblebees in the peaks.

Go Purple Emperoring this weekend! They've come out with a bang, in excellent numbers.

Purple Emperors sipping sap from a dying Elm sucker at Great Holland pits Essex Wildlife Trust today

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Over my life I have been pretty close to being a pacifist, but I am appalled about the current appeasment of people like Putin and Netanyahu, and am constrained with the circumstances that we in UK and Europe should rearm. Horrible,...... it tears me up!

I have maintained an uneasy confidence that Starmer may be on a feasible track to do some good, but I now I can only hope that Corbyn and the Greens can save us from the abyss into which my MP representative Farridge would lead us. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A positive and encouraging video youtu.be/NHMJVXiWBEA?si…

youtu.be/bGu0rofa0nw?si… Some Essex Ponds being brought back. NorfolkPondsProject