Too soon?

We think that, after the mild winter (so far?) Spring is arriving about 2 weeks earlier this year.  We've already shown you the spring bulbs in flower but now the birds are beginning to get busy.  A pair of Magpies are 'spring cleaning' the nest which was used last year.

We also have had a Kestrel roosting around the house all winter and 'he' has now taken to perching on the barn roof, as if waiting.  Yesterday I saw him joined by a second but 'she' flew away before I could get the camera!

And then, last night about 9pm ... pitch black we began to hear bird cries ... Cranes migrating north!

Looks like we've got to get cracking in the garden!!!!