A sunny but breezy April day at the start of Easter break ensured wall-to-wall people and the continued closure of the bottom path so some time spent along the upper part of the 'butterfly slope' where lots of bee flies taking advantage of Ground Ivy including one Dotted, first of year, which didn't stay for a picture and plenty of these Osmia bicolor females. The males are a very early bee and nowhere near as distinctive. Curiously not a single butterfly here nor on the grassy slopes adjacent to the Oxenbourne gate. Just this Buzzard above, one of three. A Raven went south and two possibly three Firecrests were active just before the park house.
