Bird Watching

This month we ask our contributors: what’s your favourite spring passerine? Amanda Tuke: "Hearing my first London Whitethroat singing always feels like a significant spring milestone." Stuart Winter: “Spring hasn’t sprung for me unless I see a passage Ring Ouzel on my local Chilterns patch.” Dominic Couzens: “It’s Whitethroat – just a bird that bustles with the energy of the season.” Ian Parsons: "The arrival of every spring passerine is special, but the first Swallow is always very special.” …and the Bird Watching team’s answers Matt Merritt: “Wheatear – smart, active birds, the passage is long drawn-out, and their name has a bawdy Anglo-Saxon origin.” Mike Weedon: “I do love a male Whinchat. We have even had a couple in song close to home in recent years.” Cover pic: Redstart…

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Bird Watching (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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