Whitethroat again, male Pheasant & other garden goodies!

Early morning on Saturday 16th May, the male Whitethroat was singing regularly from the Copper Beech tree again and the very verile male Pheasant who was strutting his stuff from yesterday, had a brief strut around the back of the garden, a very fine beast indeed! Before he flew up to the garden fence and flying onto Fallowfields again. Badger building permitting, (very sadly as regular readers to this site will know, the site is being developed for housing despite my best efforts to legally thwart this by attending Council planning meetings, corresponding directly with the Council Planning Officer, lobbying local councillors, parish councillors, leasing with the Suffolk Police Wildlife Crime officer and Suffolk Wildlife Trust (I was disappointed SWT didn't do more to help protect this site) as well as lobbying local residents, and reporting some Japanese Knotweed to the local Biosecurity Officer ) admittedly badger did come and remove it, full marks to Badger for that at least!)all to no avail, but my thanks to all these groups for their efforts) I hope to see tiny little Pheasant chicks in the next few weeks. Just over the fence, I saw a Male House Sparrow in the sprouting Sallows bushes, 3rd record (2 in garden, this one just outside and 53rd lockdown record. Later a male Pied Wagtail flew onto next door's (west) of us aerial. Really heart warming to see the 2 spotted leaves of 2 hybrid Spotted X Southern Marsh Orchids coming up naturally from the back garden back bed. A definite 4 Southern Marsh Orchids sprouting their leaves plus 2 suspected ones just starting to sprout, the one in the middle circular flowerbed and fingers crossed "old faithful" in the front garden.