No April Fool - took the day off just in case

I had a day off work today before Easter, and dodged the showers.  Birding can be very sociable, meeting like-minded people, however just occasionally you meet people who don't know when you want to watch wildlife in peace...ho hum.

Saw three squabbling marsh-harriers, heard booming bittern, saw loads of sand martins and my first swallows of the year chattering away (to me personally I like to think). Chiff-chaffs were singing last week, but this week also heard my first willow warblers, with their golden liquid cadence of a song.  Great-crested grebes where doing their courting dance in a sort of half hearted way too.

Here are today's efforts:

 Roe deer

 Willow warblers

Also came across a slow worm basking and one under corrugated iron again with an adder.