Surprise!

Woke up this morning to 2cm of very un-forecast snow!

Sccchhhhnnnnnooooooowwww!!!!!!!!!!



Ahem.

Despite a quite nippy nor'westerly's best efforts, the sun has since come out and pretty much melted the lot in the near vicinity. This is to be expected here, but I'm sure there's been 'traffic chaos' in the meantime...

Anyways, I got out nice and sharp and headed over to the Nose for another Wheatear hunt - and this time I scored!! :D
Cracking male, quite a buffy one, too. So that's all right. Wheatear for the year, check. Sod the snow, spring has sprung! :)

6 Guilles in summer finery were on the Ore Stone, with two more on the sea while a Fulmar prospected along towards Longquarry. The SWBCM had activated overnight, with single Common and LBB among the gulls picking over the not particularly massive slick. Also GSW drumming, two Green Woodpeckers yaffling at each other across Ilsham valley, and Greenfinches with bills full of grass. Finally, three ducks flew north along the coast! I got my hopes up as they clearly weren't Scoters.... Mallards, of course. Drat.