We've been regularly checking the "still very few" swallows flying over our area, just in case there is something different but not in luck yet! Well done Mike - red-rumped swallows are really nice to see; bee-eaters next perhaps? We've yet to see any house martins back at expected breeding sites in this area.
Although it's been relatively quiet bird-wise during the last few days, a whitethroat was singing yesterday in suitable hedgerow breeding habitat - the first one we'd heard in the area this year.
A whimbrel, busy feeding at Landshipping Quay today, was a fairly recent arrival. With many arriving on the coast over the last week or so, we expect to see others filtering up this way any day now.
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| Three of the four greenshanks - resting at a usual spot |
There are still at least seven teal, three redshanks and four greenshanks down at the Quay/Millars Park lagoon. Perhaps they are also new arrivals, or else long-stayers still in "lockdown" mode!
