Once again, it was a case of rain stops play, but when exactly? Forecasts were slightly more accurate, though only at the last minute. Before the rain, we did have some good observations, a woodlark heading south, chiffchaffs increased to 8 and a second female type black redstart turned up on the beach behind the observatory, feeding along the tideline, not a behaviour that's been seen here before. The male black redstarts from previous days seem to have moved on, but a second female type was also seen around the observatory grounds. Amongst the other birds moving past, a sand martin was the 3rd earliest record for the observatory out of only 11 other march records.
