The first spring arrival landed at the farm a couple of weekends ago in the form of this Wheatear.
Wheatears are nearly always the first migrants to fly in. They winter in Africa and this one was eagerly feeding on insects and other invertebrates to replenish it's reserves after it's long migration flight.
first summer male wheatear
It also managed to stay still enough for a while for me to get some digiscoping footage.
Lovely to see them back up here again this year and it's just the start of the spring migration season so let's hope a few more of our summer visitors turn up in the coming weeks.
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