March!

March is here at last, Spring is in the air and Bees have been seen buzzing around in the back yard.

As February came to an end I had another night shift to work on Sunday 26th February and so had another pre-work walk around Plymouth Hoe. It was all sunshine and blue skies but with a chilly Easterly wind and as expected the Purple Sandpipers and Black Redstarts were not playing ball with no sign of either but there were 5 Turnstones feeding together below the Pier One Cafe on the dropping tide. Even better was a Grey Seal regularly surfacing out of the water by the rocks off Rusty Anchor, the first Grey Seal I've seen here for some time now.

Grey Seal

Grey Seal

A day trip to Exeter by train on Tuesday 28th February was pleasant in the continuing sunshine but chilly breeze, I kept an eye on the birds along the River Exe as we hurtled along but didn't see much although 2 Greylag Geese on Exminster Marshes were new for the year and there were still good numbers of Brent Geese present out on the mudflats. 

And so 2 months of the year have now gone by, bizarrely it seems to be dragging but passing by quickly at the same time and I am counting down the days until July.