It was a glorious morning, with a slight northerly breeze keeping the heat off at first.

These were blowing exactly on a north-south axis:

The early wild roses are appearing. Eat your heart out, Chelsea, but nothing is better than these:

And warblers were everywhere, but if you can see the sedge warbler that was somewhere in this patch when I took the picture, you're doing better than me. I saw other warblers today, but never a sedge:

And I'm not complaining.

For the record, the best bird of the day was a common sandpiper, although they're all good.