Friday, April 12, 2019
Two small birds hunched on the sand turned out to be a pair of twite - the first I've seen this year. The male gave a few bursts of song and then appeared to feed the female, and they flew off together.
The wheatear was singing from the wall of the sheep fold at Badentarbat.
Either this or a second male bird was seen further along the shore, keeping company with a female. When I realised he was carrying a long straw or stem in his bill I retreated - it hadn't occurred to me that they would already be nesting.
A female merlin was the only other bird of note, powering across the salt-marsh with purposeful speed and scattering meadow pipits and skylarks in all directions.
// posted by Christine @ 12:51 PM 
