With thick fog and heavy rain this morning on a light NE>3 it was match abandoned with the weather not fit for purpose. Looking at the week ahead the weather is stuck in a low pressure system with more fog for morning and a week of rain and showers.
If the weather ever improves, the first Willow Warblers should be arriving whilst Swallows are imminent with arrivals in MCs area of Oxford. My 1st Swallow at Fly Flatts last year was the 15th, by which time I had 11 Wheatear present along with a Greenland.
Some more April arrivals were :- Common Sandpiper-19th, Sand Martin-20th, Linnet-21st,
Common Scoters-23rd, Dunlin-26th, House Martin-28th, and a moving Marsh Harrier-29th.
If this low pressure weather continues Leeshaw will have to be the number one patch and Fly Flatts used as and when.
BS