Two days ago I heard the first Willow Warbler .... just one wispy 3-second burst was enough. I was wondering when they were going to turn up ..were they late ? And then yesterday on a short stroll, I heard 5 of them ...they were " in". As us orthli-nogolisters say. And when I got back to my office/junk-heap I worked out what the average arrival dates were for the usual suspects .... and here's what I found from my impeccably collected data over many years .... earliest to latest ... BIRD MEAN ARRIVAL DATE Chiffchaff 3rd April Willow Warbler 6th April Blackcap 7th April Swallow 15th April House Martin 2nd May Swift 4th May And as for this Spring, it was very different to those figures. Here's what actually happened. ( I've left Blackcap out as they've been around the garden all winter and so it was difficult to be sure when the migrant ones arrived.) The first Chiffchaff .... 24th March. First House Martin .... 1st April First Swallow ............. 11th April First Willow Warbler... 14th April ( Swifts, obviously, have not yet arrived) After all that analysis, this .... Yesterday I couldn't get into weebly, the site that hosts this blog. They insisted that I had to accept cookies, which is odd, and hasn't happened before, and I certainly didn't accept them.. So, I didn't think I'd be able to write this today. But, strangely, no cookies were requested this morning, and all is fine. But .... I won't be surprised if some day soon I'll not be able to get into it. In which case, I thank all my readers over the 3 years of its little life.
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