Plenty of birds on the move now that the temperatures have edged up and the wind has begun behaving itself.
Osprey at Budworth Mere in Cheshire, loadsa Wheatears, White Wags, Mipits and such like reported around the coast _ and a Garganey was at Martin Mere yesterday, with a Swallow on Wirral.
Barry McCarthy texted me this morning from a Formby Point seawatch, with Great Northern Diver, Gannet, Kittiwake and Fulmar all offshore.
Little Gulls are back around the Crosby Marine Park, and Jim Brady called with news of Long Tailed Tits, Jackdaws and Rooks nest building in Prescot.
Still got my head in Scotland, so it was nice that Mark and Sue Wynn from Widnes e-mailed after a recent trip to the Isle of Skye, and those lovely Cuillin hills.
Plenty of Whooper Swans were still on the lochs and Fieldfares were on coastal pastures _ migrants waiting for favourable winds north.
Their best sighting was a Common Buzzard snatching mating frogs from the shallows of one lochan like an Osprey, before tearing sinews off the helpless amphibians.
Me, I'm stuck in an office again....
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.
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