April 2011 part 2

3rd  Hedgehog in garden for the first time this year.
7th The hedgehog is sleeping in the box we put out last year.
9th- 15th Holiday in Gloustershire.
We arrive on the same day as the first swallows of spring according to the man who opens the road bridge across the canal.

Here they are swooping down on the estuary for their evening meal.
On our first day we see a pair of buzzards in a tree near the cottage. In the field opposite a buzzard catches something on the ground but has to abandon it as he can't take off.

 Mute swans swim by on the river, a robin drops by and a sparrow is collecting nesting material.