March is a quiet time on the Northumberland coast. A lot of our wintering birds have moved on, so we have no Golden Plovers and few Curlews now and the Northern Thrushes have vanished too so now we are left birdless apart from a some slow signs of spring in our resident populations.
A walk around the village lanes and pond yesterday turned up very little. The Hoodie is still hanging around but even it seemed lethargic yesterday refusing to come down for food thrown into the paddock. Maybe he ? is getting lonely seeing the other corvids pairing up now. Ive not seen the Barn Owls either since Thursday...
The weather this week is reverting back to winter so the chances of a singing Chiffchaff will be pretty slim until there is a calmer spell maybe next week. Its spells like this that really shows a local patch for what it is, but time passes and in doing so we can see that change is just around the corner... At least this hiatus gives me a chance to get the garden ready for the growing season...
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Superb bird, I've never seen one! Too far South
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