Whitethroat

Following the sighting yesterday of swallows for the first time this spring, today, some whitethroats could be heard singing at their usual haunts. As I have not been for a number of days to the areas of thicket where these birds breed, it is possible that they have been here before today, though they have certainly arrived after the blackcaps chiffchaffs which have been established on their territories for a week or more.