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I went  into the Phoenix  this afternoon 12th June and found the whole formation beautifully laid out ground level, with much of the crop showing double node bends, flowing continuously clock wise. Although visitors came and went, very little breakages or damage is apparent.
 
Particular points of interest include:~ The stalks interwoven all along the standing walls;
 
a huge swirl above the 3 right-hand side circles (below the beak),  this swirl is shaped like Silbury Hill;
 
The flames appear to be a rapid motion,  captured and frozen,  with no supporting standing crop,  they are half risen, and seem to defy gravity;
 
The straight solitary line within the face area  is reminiscent of areas of the Dragonfly Formation, above this one.
 
All circles not placed on tramlines have thick solid walls around them, no visible signs of entry into the  formation to be appreciated from within.
 
Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird, known from  Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.
 

From Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
 
  The Egyptians occasionally represented the phoenix as having the body of a man and the wings of a bird. This biform creature had a tuft of feathers upon its head and its arms were upraised in an attitude of prayer. As the phoenix was the symbol of regeneration, the tuft of feathers on the back of its head might well symbolize the activity of the pineal gland, or third eye, the occult function of which was apparently well understood by the ancient priest-craft.
 
JIC JANE (RAINBOWS)