Dan here with a mid-season list of which summer migrants we've recorded in the parish so far. In order of appearance:
March
11th Chiffchaff
19th Little Ringed Plover
25th Blackcap
27th Osprey
29th Willow Warbler
30th Wheatear
31st Sand Martin
April
3rd Lesser Whitethroat
4th Ring Ouzel
15th Swallow
15th White Wagtail
15th Tree Pipit
15th Yellow Wagtail
16th Whitethroat
16th Common Sandpiper
17th Sedge Warbler
17th House Martin
22nd Whimbrel
24th Whinchat
24th Redstart
25th Cuckoo
May
5th Swift
5th Arctic Tern
8th Woodchat Shrike
8th Garden Warbler
For the sake of simplicity, purity and argument I've only included classic summer migrants and not proto-, partial-, hemi- and demi-migrants such as Stonechat and Greenshank...
Ring Ouzel, Cuckoo and even Yellow Wagtail are not always annual at Aldcliffe so we've been lucky with those, but we've usually recorded Grasshopper Warbler & Garden Warbler by now--particularly in a spring with plentiful observer coverage like this one.
Hopefully there are plenty more spring additions to come and perhaps I'll complete the round-up towards the end of June.
DH.
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