Wheatear numbers seemed slow to accumulate but now they are present and very visible around these parts ...
Willow Warblers are singing wonderfully ... and while walking the tracks and lanes they are hardly ever out of earshot ... some nest building in progress ...
I usually think of the first week in April as the time to see Ring Ouzels at the foot of the fells ... the time seemed to have passed for these until just a few days ago when one flew onto a fence then started feeding among the grass ...
... one of the great delights of this spring has been the resurgence of Short-eared Owls ... they have seemed to have been missing for so long but with vole numbers on the up they are back ... this bird was from a few days ago but one this morning was my sixth bird over the past week or so ...
... then further up the track and a Ring Ouzel sang from a tree top ...
... eventually there were three birds singing against each other in the valley ...
... some of the song was more varied than I usually hear ... maybe this stems from multiple birds competing ...
... and another Stonechat ... always nice birds to see ...
... this morning Sedge Warblers were there in force ... singing away and performing extravagant aerial displays ...
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