Is it spring at last? (1 Viewer)

[harry eales]

This evening around 5.0pm at the end of the second consecutive day of sunshine this year (albeit still cold) in my street, in the little village where I live, there were two Blackbirds and one Thrush sitting on roof tops singing their hearts out.

Bugger all the rare migrants, it was a sheer joy to hear these birds sing.

Harry

 

[dannyboy]

Harry

I couldn't agree more. Yesterday I heard our resident Blackbird signing it's little head off at 6.00am. One of the biggest joys I have in life is listining to that bird at 5.00am during March/April whilst lying in bed. The return seems to say everything is still working normally. It actually makes me want to get out of bed.

Paul

 

[StevieEvans]

Song

Hi Harry

youre right, a real sense that we've turned the corner into Spring.

We've heard just about every local resident bird species in song now (especially last 2 weeks) Stock Dove, Curlew, Bullfinch, Long-eared Owl, Treecreeper, Siskin, Jay, Linnet, etc, aswell as tumbling Lapwing, drumming GSW, piping Oystercatcher etc

Latest additions being Grey Wag singing in display flight & Reed Buntings singing again since Tuesday, and i had the pleasure of watching & listening to 45-50 Redwings singing over the top of each other as they sat bathed in sunlight in a tall Ash on Wednesday.

Some of them are still "warming up" for example Yellowhammers - some of them must be feeling the effects of the credit crunch as they have no filling in their sandwiches !
:- the first part of the tune "little bit of bread" was all they could manage - they should all have some cheese before too long

Meadow Pipit is one which is late in returning, doesnt appear to be any on territory locally yet.
Similar with some of the Skylarks, still only about quarter, if that of territories occupied. (usually all pile back & start singing late January).
Another few we havnt heard here-abouts is the whinnying trill of Dabchicks - they cleared out after the first week of the year, due to the ice, & still havnt returned to our standing water bodies . . .
Roding Woodcock & Redpoll in display are also absent from our local list, but they are now in short supply as breeders on the East side of the Vice-County.

Anyway a nice time of year to be out & about.
cheers
Steve

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