.. Arrived back from our Africa trip mid-week and straight back to work, at least the weather here is in an improved state since the 2c and light snow we had the day we left before Easter.
Zimbabwe was great and I need to sort out pictures and write it up when I find time.
I headed down to the coast on Saturday morning for a few hours - It was bright sunshine with a light NE wind, which ultimately meant it was very pleasant but relatively low on bird numbers.
3 Little Terns were almost the first birds seen, with a very light trickle of Common Terns throughout the morning and the usual but low numbers of Sandwich Terns, Distant Gannets and several small Common Scoter Groups flew through with one Tufted Duck being the only other species. At 7am things looked as if they might liven up as a Hobby flew in off the sea, followed minutes later by another low and straight overhead, but other than a single figure count of Swallows and 2 Sand Martins, that was it on the land bird visible migration front. 5 Great Northern Divers on sea and then 5 Whimbrel flew East and a flock of c 60 distant waders were probably Grey Plover.
Back at home the house is in disarray as we have building works to extend the kitchen, which will last until the Summer, but 2 male and a female Blackcap were noisily outside the kitchen and there are 2 singing Chiffchaff around the place and 2 Swallows flew over on Sunday along with a Cuckoo heard calling early in the morning.
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