Lightweight birding!

Today was a day of a bit of snatched birding, although lazily it was from the drivers seat of the car while making a trip to Preston. A single curlew flying over the road brought a smile to my lips, the bill meant it really couldn't have been anything else. A pair of buzzards lifted over the woods as I came into Preston, their wings outstretched catching whatever gust of wind as they circled. On my return trip I looked as I crossed the bridge over the Ribble for any hirundines, but none were present. I keep thinking it can't be long before they return. Today I've read of a swallow being sighted at Martin Mere, and a Osprey travelling North in mid Wales, so the signs of migration are certainly there. A slight detour down the drive of Brockholes Nature Reserve yielded a brown hare ambling across the road in front of me and a couple of tufted duck among the usual suspects on the lake before the light started to go and a rumble from my stomach told me that it really was time I went home.
No photo's from today, so you'll have to make do with a Siskin from my recent ringing trip to South Wales, details of which will follow when I have a "slow news day".