Still not much sign of swifts around, but the swallow numbers picked up a bit.
What we do have is a lot of butterflies this year including some species that I have not noticed before, probably because I didn't look, but the large numbers have made me more interested.
The curlews stayed around longer this spring before going wherever they go from here, and there were more lapwings around in early spring. The wheatears passed through quickly but in normal numbers.

We have mainly common gulls and a colony of lesser black backed that seem to frequent the reservoir about a mile away.

Robin