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Temperatures have increased over the last couple of days with a southerly flow of warm air.  This coupled with the impending lifting of lockdown restrictions has certainly lifted the spirits. This siberian chiffchaff seen at Broom GPs showed really nicely in the sunlight calling occasionally.  A really great find by Steve Blain. At least six northern wheatear were present on the model airfield just outside of Baldock on the 28th morning, the males looking pristine and such a joy to see them back.

Great to get away from my desk for a couple of days out on the Essex coastline.  This was a second visit for a set of winter-bird surveys. The first early migrants had made landfall over the preceding days so an early walk along the beach at Clacton was an inspired decision as the Northern Wheatear encounter I had hoped for provided an unprecedented nine males perched up along the rocks with a couple along the beach. On site, a pair were seen close to the vantage point.