It is always a good day when the first Wheatear of the spring makes an appearance on the reserve. John Daly found this corking male on the foreshore this morning and hopefully he will be a taste of things to come. To think that he has spent the last few weeks heading north from his sub-Saharan wintering grounds, crossed the mighty desert, over flew the Atlas, traversed the Mediterranean, either the Pyrenees or the watery desert of the Bay of Biscay before a short dash across La Manche to Blighty....
Hopefully I will see one before too long.... Jerry Hoare saw the first Sand Martin of the year today heading along the river wall but it is now blowing a gale outside and the chance of seeing any small birds is now slim!
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