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Sunday 20 March 2011

First Chiffchaffs arrive on the patch

With the official beginning of Spring today, a walk around the golf course/lighthouse area coincidentally produced the first Chiffchaff of the year singing away in Warren Woods, and after a little searching it finally showed well making frequent sallies out from the trees after insects. Further along another was calling from the undercliff, and it was so nice to hear them again after what has been a long winter.

A check around East Runton produced the first Lizard of the year which happily froze on the bare earth it was sunning itself on, obviously knowing that I had left the camera in the car! A couple of Small Tortoiseshells flew by, but no other migrants or birds of note were encountered.