For a brief period of time during my undergrad degree I went right off oystercatchers (did a field project on their optimal feeding strategy which was dominated by measuring a *lot* of limpet shells collected from nest sites) but 20 years later I've thoroughly forgiven them & am rather fond of them.

You can't fool me, that's clearly a piece of broken birch twig 😉

Rude if you ask me.

Spring squill is up there near the top of my list of favourite flowers. I'm on the Pembrokeshire coast where it's pretty ubiquitous this time of year and I think I was an adult before I twigged it's not actually as widespread as I grew up assuming (easy to take things for granted!)

I've noticed far more inverts (pollinators included) over the past couple of weeks in Pembs than I did during the previous couple of years at this time. (Excluding today's rain which I'm grateful for, the streams having been looking a little shallow and muddy areas hard & rutted). But it's relative.

Very much so :)

Had one in my trap last year. My first (and so far only) one. They're beautiful things.

Definitely a beak and a half! I usually only tend to see them from behind after I've inadvertently flushed them from a soggy patch of undergrowth.

They really are. 😁