Garden sightings. Spring is coming ever closer!

Migrants

Roughly 9 more days until the first Wheatear arrives. 11th March.
Then arrives Britians first sea bird, the sandwich tern on the 22nd March 
A few days later, comes the sand martin on the 25th March.
After March the first swallow will arrive normally in the middle of April. 1st sighting for me in 2012 was on the 1st April at Aust.
Then House martins and swifts arrive later on in April. 1st house martin sighting for me in 2012 was on the 15th April sighted from my garden. 1st swift sighting for me in 2012 was at Chew Valley lake on the 20th. 


Garden sightings 2/3/13

• 2 chaffinches- 1st of the year
• 5 house sparrows
• 2 ad males and 2 ad female blackbirds
• 1 wood pigeon
• 1 juv pied or white wagtail on the roof
• 2 blue tits
• 1 starling

Other sightings from the garden

• The 10 feral pigeons
• 10 starlings
• 10 chaffinches
• 10 goldfinches
• Jackdaws
• 2 magpies
• House sparrows
• 1 Yellow legged gull adult flew north with 3 adult herring gulls. Originally sighted at Oldbury Power Station flying upriver towards Berkeley where i saw it.   
• 1 GLAUCOUS GULL 1st winter flew south with 3 adult herring gulls on the 3/3/13. Very high up and not sighted again down river. This may be the bird which was sighted at Slimbridge WWT earlier in the year.