Casual birdwatching notes

[regshoe]

1) The year really seems to have turned a corner this week. It's still cold and still fairly wet and miserable, but you step out of the door first thing in the morning and it just feels ineffably spring-like. I think it's the birds, which are certainly starting to warm up for the dawn chorus. A robin burst into song just beside my head while I was walking along this morning, and the song thrush that always sits and sings from the top of a particular tree was in especially fine voice.

2) I have seen one or more herons flying overhead at some point on my walks almost every day this week. Whenever I see a heron these days I have to stop and appreciate it, so this has been very amusing. It's not as though they're particularly rare birds, but I don't usually see them this often. I'm taking it as a good omen.

I really must get out and do some proper birdwatching sometime soon. Time to look through the very helpful booklet of nature reserves from the local Wildlife Trust and search for places that are good for springtime birds...

Comments

[luzula]

I've started to hear some birds singing, as well! A wren, and the great tits of course, and there was a blackbird the other day.

I don't see herons often, but when I did so a month or so ago, I too appreciated it. : )

[regshoe]

Oh, lovely! Wrens are one of my favourite songbirds—so tiny and so loud. Hearing them singing from close up is always a treat. :D