Swift and Lesser Whitethroat
29 Apr 2011
Swifts are one of the latest-arriving migrants but this year a record-breaker reached Scotland as early as 2 April! The main arrival seems to be a fraction later than in the last two years though, perhaps delayed by the recent stong north and north-easterly winds. The Bank Holiday saw the Lesser Whitethroat reporting rate peak, their scratchy song starting up in hedgerows and scrub in the southern half of the country. This species becomes quite hard to detect once it has stopped singing, hence the rapid fall in reporting during May.
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