Wednesday 10th April

I suppose I should have expected as much. Peter has gone swanning off to France on a jolly and asked if I would write this blog while he was away. So here I am, with my very first blog, on a day when it rained all morning and was pretty dreary in the afternoon and there were no e-mails and no WhatsApp messages, because, very obviously, no-one was out birding and, even if they had been, they wouldn't have seen anything for me to tell you about. Thank you, Peter!

Fortunately, Margaret Brooke at Kilchoman sent in this charming photograph of the Barn Owl pair in her nestbox, showing that, for them at least, love is in the air.

 

Also, thanks to Lucy at the RSPB, it is possible to confirm that, as expected, there was a mass exodus of both Barnacle and Greenland Whitefronts last weekend as they took advantage of the strong easterlies to get them on their way to Iceland, where they stop off for up to a month before moving on to breed in Greenland. Some of each species remain, having missed that migration opportunity, clearly hoping there will soon be others.

 

Tomorrow looks as if it is going to be a *much* nicer day, so please get out there and let's have some interesting birds to tell you about tomorrow.