It just is, it will always be so. As soon as some threshold gets crossed or a statistic blurted out across all media platforms that the passing season has been the warmest/coldest/wettest/driest on record, thensome incredible weather pattern hits us to keep us on our toes and reaching for an extra ganzie.

This morning saw exceedingly wintery conditions in East Anglia with a light dusting, a centimetre or so of laying snow followed on by snow showers, sleet, hail, rain sunshine and cloudscapes that would have had Constable reaching for his sketchpad. All this hot on the heels of the Meterological Spring, which is quite different from the Equinoxial Spring, but still a Spring.

I am sure it is not just my imagination but the number and types of wetland birds I would normally see at this time of year are significantly down on previous years. Maybe with such hot conditions they did a runner?

Anyway, I found himself today and very obliging he was too.

With light levels going up and down like a yo-yo, we have ISO640, 2500 and 3200.

I would by now have expected to spot at least four breeding pairs. So far I have only sighted this pair. Herself showed up again today but was a tad flighty and all I got was her backside deep in the bushes.