They're back! Wheatears are starting to arrive back from their winter quarters in Africa. This fabulous photo was taken by Nigel Blake at a regular stop-off point for migrating wheatears in Hertfordshire, and comes from our RSPB Images library.
Though wheatears mostly breed in upland areas in the UK, they can turn up on almost any open land during their migration (even football pitches and playing fields).
Wheatears that migrate a little later in spring tend to be birds heading back to Greenland to breed, and they undertake the longest non-stop sea crossing of any songbird.
Other migrant birds arriving back in Blighty at the moment include chiffchaffs, little ringed plovers, sand martins and swallows. What have you seen?