From recent days here in Filey. A tame, subtly very sharp female Stonechat on Carr Naze, where a pair have set up territory over the last few weeks; other pairs are in the area, following a pattern which occurs most years in March. Due no doubt to several factors (disturbance from humans and dogs being the primary) they breed only erratically, and often move on in early April - fingers crossed for this year....
.... and a Magpie going to roost over the setting sun on North Cliff, where I'd just set my nocmig recorder and bumped into no fewer than 12 Wheatears and a Short-eared Owl in the field alongside it. For a brief second, it could almost have been the Negev.....
