Whilst chatting on the phone to Wdig birder, I was surprised to see first one and then two more martins from my window, shooting over the fields heading north. I was unable to distinguish them for certain but I think they were sand martins. These are my earliest ever UK hirundines anywhere including the south coast! What with these and A&B's remarkably early Puffins and Wdig birders Manxie, spring seems to have sprung!
... Maybe not the earliest come to think of it!... I seem to remember a swallow at Newport in Februaury a few years ago...
