Well it looks like spring has moved up a notch in the South West over the last day or so, with multiple scarce and rare birds making landfall, mostly in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Hopefully we get a slice of the action here, but in the meantime there's plenty of spring excitement still to be had!
On Monday morning, I hadn't even stepped off my driveway when the magic of spring migration left me in awe. It took my brain a few seconds to register that the blob near the top of a neighbours tree isn't usually there...
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| Yes - that blob! |
And on closer inspection, it was a cracking male Wheatear...
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| Looked so cool! |
He wasn't settled there for long, and within less than thirty seconds he was off, joined by a second bird and flew north over the road, over the houses on the edge of Seaton and last seen heading for the fields near Tower Services.
Spring migration in action, without me even leaving the garden! And one of those occasions that makes you wonder how often us birders must just miss seeing things. If I had stepped out my house thirty seconds later I wouldn't have seen any Wheatears that day.
Another new one for the house list, and also for 2025, was a House Martin that fed low over the house for a few minutes this evening. A bang on average date for my first, however as there were more than usual reported around the UK in March this year, it feels late.
Hopefully my next post will include even more spring magic...
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