For 24 years Spotties have nested in
my garden and until 2012 the average arrival time was 8th
May.
This year I gave them up when I went
away for a week on the 28th May but returned to find a pair had
arrived and she is now incubating.
They probably arrived around
1st June. In 2013 they arrived 26th May (a cold spring)
and 2014 18th May.
Do these 3 late years tie in with
other people’s recordings? It probably also rules out a second
brood.
The other migratory nesters in the
garden, Willow
Philip Ellis.