March Round-up 2025
Hello - from the PWC team! It has been a brilliant month, as spring well and truly got underway giving patch birders plenty of opportunity to add spring migrants onto their patch year lists, reports of Wheatears, Sand Martins and Swallows as well as the first Willow Warblers flooded in. There was plenty of patchers getting in on the early spring vismig, with patchers in the north getting Whooper Swans and Pink-footed Geese moving north in their hundreds, while east coast birders had a hard time for vismig while the winds were mostly from the east this however seemed to benefit the western half greatly, with excellent vismigs as well as good early spring falls. The south coast benefited from the early spring easterlies and south-easterlies, giving good wildfowl passage over the sea. Although as well as the more regular spring migrants, there was plenty of spring overshoots predominantly into the south-west and in Ireland, and mostly Hoopoes and excellent numbers of Black Redstarts ...