Obviously Boris is having a duff day for bird-spotting ..... he should be getting a good "list" what with all his peregrinations all over the UK and further afield all over Europe and America .... and I suspect he gets all the flights with us taxpayer's money. I've been trawling through previous years to work out the average arrival dates of some of our "spring" arrivals. And this was what I found ... Chiffchaff 3rd April Blackcap 7th April Swallow 15th April W. Warbler 16th April House Martin 2nd May Swift 4th May And here's the "actual" arrivals so far..... Chiffchaff 23rd March. Loads of them everywhere. Blackcap Overwintered .... Still two males and a female now. Swallow I've only "spotted" one .. 29th March !! (..and none since)* W.Warbler 12th April, 6:15pm ! Singing well. 3 on 13th April. House Martin None yet Swift I'll be waiting for a while ! Anyway ..time for the lovely music ...... Roy Harper .. " Tom Tiddler's Ground" ( That's the space between the high tide and the low.) He's probably using a DADGAD tuning .
* Well, I got my second Swallow of the year yesterday 14th .... in exactly the same place where the first one was spotted.
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