Saturday was glorious although very cold first thing, so I was hoping that spring may have sprung, a singing Nutatch from the garden was a good start. So it was onto the patch full of hope, Redwings 50 plus and Fieldfare with 40 plus reminded me of the cold spring that we have had . As did 50 Starling which flew quickly north . The local Buzzrds were soaring about ( 3), and on the pastures there were at least 8 Skylarks which were singing .
Meadow Pipits with 50 plus were about again after a few days of absence in any sort of numbers and there were 10 Stock Dove with one flock of 6 seen , I would guess that they were migrants as we only have 2 pairs on the patch usually.
A couple of Red Legged Partridge exploded out of one of the hedgerows  and a Great Spotted Woodpecker was drumming somewhere in the distance.
So still no summer migrants on the patch although when dropping my son off at work there were 3 Chiffchaff by the river with one in song ,so some summer migrants are filtering in slowly .
With the winds forcast from the south next week and tempretures on the rise those summer visitors cannot be far from arriving