Me that is, not the Wheatears – the first ones came through the coast at about the average time earlier this month, but I only bumped into my initial five of the year as I went to check the cattle on Ainsdale LNR today.
A fine party of three full adult males, one younger male and a female, darted about amongst the cowpats just beyond the access gate to the cattle enclosure behind the Pontins site.
I sat down hidden behind a low dune for five minutes and let them come to me – superb things, light in a darkening world.
My first Swallow through at Ainsdale yesterday, with a singing Willow Warbler down near the LNR/NNR border, although in the cold breeze today only a Chiffy braved conditions to sing.
John Dempsey Birdblog 
Heard my first first chiffchaff last Monday in Costco car in central Liverpool bizarrely and my son saw a red kite being mobbed by 3 buzzards in Ince woods
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Nice – they seem to pop up everywhere Pete. I get the feeling that kite is lingering, unless we are finally getting an influx…
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