Bird are still changing over. The winter visitors are arriving - early swans and geese already but there are also birds that are more transient. On Wednesday we saw two adult Arctic Terns inland. 

Yesterday is was the turn of the Eastern coast and Gulls where we met up with both adult and young Mediterranean Gulls. As the name suggests their natural range is further south. Had they bred locally? I don't know although one adult was ringed. Anyway, it was an opportunity to photograph them in flight - previous only on terra firma.

At last we get a sense that Spring is on it's way with some milder weather. The bird song is increasing from our resident birds, but we're still waiting for the summer migrants to arrive. The high Spring tides have just occurred though and a session with waders gave close views of Dunlin, Redshank and some Black Tailed Godwits.
We seem to be bumping into Sparrowhawks just now - at the Woodland Hide,
 and 2 separate friends gardens!

What a lot of cloudy damp days we've had. At least the end of the month has been much brighter so we can enjoy longer days.  Lapwings and Oystercatchers are returning to the fields and the ducks are displaying to each other. Thanks to John we had a good session with Long Tailed Ducks at St. Andrews (below). Today we enjoyed Crossbills, 12 male Black Grouse and an obliging Dipper.