Four days before this day last year...

I know most normal people normally do these kind of anniversary tributes on the exact date of passing, but I'm not normal. It was exactly four days before this day last year that a male Bluethroat popped up in front of my flabbergasted face on the Isle of Wight. I feel it only necessary to remind you all of that fact...

... the one reason why my day was probably better than yours on 6th April 2013.

I'm afraid I can get quite nostalgic over previous springs, so you might have to sit through some more of this self-indulgent, sentimental rubbish in the next few weeks, especially as we move ever closer to the anniversaries of Stokes Field's first Redstart and Tree Pipit... those were the days.