Lowton Bird Observatory, Day 31

Photo: Swift.

A real mega today, a garden warbler was singing in a neighbours garden at 7:30am This is the first record of the year for me, though I do hope to see and hear more at Pennington Flash over the next few weeks.

At lunch time a great tit was singing in the goat willow and a buzzard rode the thermals overhead.

Two swifts were over the garden at 13:30, these are the first I've seen over the garden this year, though they have been about locally since 18th. With the swifts several sand martins and a swallow followed about 30 minutes later. 28 species recorded today, my best day total so far and this brings my lockdown garden list to 49 species since 24th March.