Sunday 2 May 2010

Birder's Bonus 69


Although numbers of people have spotted them earlier, I saw my first Swallows (Hirundo rustica) of the season in Bynea. A Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) at Oxwich seemed very interested in the swarming St Mark's flies.

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