Our migrant Chiffchaffs have finally arrived en masse and were all over my Brussels patch two days ago, although I saw and heard an early arrival in my local park on 27 February. Our resident species, such as these Great Crested Grebes, are at various stages of displaying and nest-building, and I even managed to locate a new Long-tailed Tit nest in the very same bush as two years ago! It's amazing that they go through so much effort to build such an intricate nest, and then do it all over again the next year rather than reusing the same one. Our wintering waterbirds are starting to decrease in number but those that remain are also displaying or gradually coming into breeding plumage, such as this Great Cormorant.
