Very overcast. Many sand martins dogfighting above the water and some willow warblers (both locations) - first seen this year. Only one chiffchaff heard but almost impossible not to hear them around Dumfries. Have heard a swallow at home around 4th April, but didn't see it.
Bike ride to and into Ae Forest. Black rabbit by roadside, quite a way from nearest farm so presumably an escapee. Good to see kestrel hunting, showing some have obviously survived, also buzzards in mating flight (or two males having a fly-off)? Wheatear on moor, the earliest I've seen them and passing pipits. Siskins drinking from a puddle in the forest track - could almost have run them over. Again heard but did not see skylarks.
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