Snape Marshes

I had to scrape the frost from my windscreen this morning before carrying out fieldwork for the bird Atlas in mid-Suffolk.  Dawn broke and promised to be a good day and it was, with blue skies, sunshine and no wind it was by far the best day of the year so far.  I could not have picked a better day for a site meeting at Snape Marshes.  It was like a spring morning with many birds singing.  However, I found a dead Adder which had ventured out too early from hibernation.  A pair of Treecreepers busily fed in the oaks along the footpath and several Yellowhammers were in the blackthorn bushes.