Signs of spring (1 Viewer)

[Cheshire Birder]

First reports of Redstart, Cuckoo, Hobby and Nightingale yesterday here in Britain.

CB

 

[Gronk08]

The Willow Warbler have now joined the Chiffchaff in Silverdale Staffs.

Tim.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Several Ospreys coming through now along with a host of commoner migrants in southern Britain.

CB

 

[Zheljko]

Still awaiting for the whitethroats and the nightingale. Another birder heard a cuckoo so I went to my most promising patch and cooed attracting only a confused male Chaffinch LOL. It seems many passerines finished the pre-nesting singing period and now are rarely heard (Nuthatch, Long-tailed Tit) while presumably they sit on their eggs. This morning I saw mating pairs of both Great Spotted and Middle Woodpeckers. Blackbirds are the weirdest. Groups of three males seem to play tag in the forest at about 1 meter above ground.

 

[Peter C.]

American Robins are pretty common winter birds here, and so their mere prescance is not really a sign of spring; on the other hand, the male we saw yesterday afternoon, chasing another male out of yard, certainly is.

 

[Gretchen]

Saw three turkey vultures flying over in yesterday's balmy 40 degrees (F)! First of season for me in Minnesota. (Also saw the robins being feisty today.)

 

[Nigel Davies]

swallows starting to arrive in the Downham Market area

 

[Nigel Davies]

Swift and Hobby in the Downham Market area this morning

 

[crazyfingers]

First ruby throated hummingbird