While baked in glorious weather,wildlife sees this as an opportunity to get a move on. Nothing I love more than to see birds you know are 'on the move'. Migration is an amazing feat in the wildlife world and I managed to grab a piece of the action myself today without lifting a finger!
A group of us sat in the garden today to work on some strategic thinking, using the suns rays to stimulate our thought processes. All of a sudden we were distracted, as overhead wheeled three species of raptor. It was amazing to see two red kites, Milvus milvus, one common buzzard, Buteo buteo, and one sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus. Meanwhile peacock butterflies, Inachis io, danced around the flowering shrubs nearby.
Certainly the two kites were moving through but given the local resident populations of the other two species it is impossible to say that was the case for them. Although it could be quite likely.
On getting home from work there was a migrant chiffchaff, Phylliscopus collibita singing and calling outside my back door. While watching that, as it flitted among the emerging birch leaves picking insects, a common buzzard glided low above on its way to roost, no doubt in trees on the nearby golf course.
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