We are still in March but one is ever hopeful of new spring arrivals everyday. That's never quite so of course but new individuals if not species are turning up and the green sandpiper count at Les Vielles Vaures rose to six yesterday. They are easily spooked and that may explain why I saw none in a brief visit this morning as a fisherman was there before me at this usually deserted site. Plenty of swallows were flying around and there were a few at Pont d'Agris but no martins as yet. Chiffchaffs (pouillot velocé) were present in well into double figures and just one blue-headed wagtail.
Curiously, although all the birds seem to be pairing up for the breeding season, there was a large flock of several hundred chaffinches (pinson du nord) on what are increasingly becoming the desecrated Plains of Lairiere.
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