Signs of spring? (4 Viewers)

[Seatallen]

The Swifts are back! The Swifts are back!

Just saw a group fly over.

Best moment of the Spring in my opinion :t:

(edited to change Swallows to Swifts. I'm clearly over-excited...)

 

[Kentbloke]

My first trip of the season to Stodmarsh rewarded me with 2 Hobbies, Blackcaps, Whitethroats and a veritable plague of Marsh Harriers! But the best was about half a dozen Nightingales, one which kicked into full song about 8 feet away from me and just kept singing until a dog walker sent it scurrying away into the undergrowth. Blooming marvellous in the warm, 22c sunshine. Ahhhh.... |:d|

 

[Himalaya]

It is cold outside here in East Lancs!

My first trip of the season to Stodmarsh rewarded me with 2 Hobbies, Blackcaps, Whitethroats and a veritable plague of Marsh Harriers! But the best was about half a dozen Nightingales, one which kicked into full song about 8 feet away from me and just kept singing until a dog walker sent it scurrying away into the undergrowth. Blooming marvellous in the warm, 22c sunshine. Ahhhh.... |:d|

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Massive fall of 1000 Spotted Flycatchers at Portland on June 1st. Surely the largest site count in Britain?

CB

 

[Himalaya]

So late? I saw 3 at Bolton Abbey yesterday.

Massive fall of 1000 Spotted Flycatchers at Portland on June 1st. Surely the largest site count in Britain?

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

So late? I saw 3 at Bolton Abbey yesterday.

Spotted Flycatchers are one of the later migrants but such numbers are incredible.

CB