With such a slow start to the year and being well behind on my average by the end of March, things could only get better, as they say.
April is usually a frustrating month up here, with Spring not quite sprung and winter clinging on but not delivering. This year winter did cling on as usual but April certainly did deliver, A total of 34 patch ticks over the course of the month; easily a record total for the month. Obviously many were birds typically scored in March and 18 of them were 100% 'ers, i.e. get seen every year, so don't really count for much. However a few nice extras included a scattering of migrants at the end of the month, with ring ouzel and redstart being the best of the picks. The two goosander on the 8th were only the third records for the patch.
Bird of the month though was the 1st winter Glauc sat in a field on the 4th April, being only the second record for the patch.
Which puts me nicely on 82 species and a much improved 66.31%.
Happy days
Bushveld
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