Swallows don’t make a summer at Stanwick Lakes

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Phto: Thermos assumed (based on copyright claims). [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
Yesterday produced my first Swallow of the year at Stanwick Lakes.  Spring is ticking slowly along.

This Swallow was a little bit later than my earliest records but well within the range, according to my records from Birdtrack. It still feels as though spring is a bit unsprung to me though.

2005abroad
200617 April
2007abroad
200819 April
20094 April
20102 April
201122 April
20126 April
2013abroad
20145 April
201511 April
201617 April
2017abroad
20189 April

And it certainly felt like that as I left Stanwick Lakes yesterday morning.

 

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