I decided to go down Station Road this morning after a long absence from that theatre of avian excitation. Time to accept the Spring migration of yesteryear is consigned to just that; nothing to stir the adrenaline appeared. Yet again there wasn't a single Hirundine nor Apodididdlyidodiform seen 😠just 3/4 WW, Chiffchaff & 4 Whitethroat. Got to admit though that the latter do appear to be in good numbers this year and one of them was singing just a few yards away from Thornton Road.
There was one exceptional moment when I espied a vagrant
Grimbles Changeable Eagle Owl perched on a fence. Obviously this bird was on it's annual migration from Birkenshaw to Siberia and stopped for a rest.
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This plumage could alter at any given time |