The weather this spring has been a bit up and down to say the least, never feeling particularly warm other than on a couple of random days where temperatures hit 22+ degrees.  However, with many more migrants still  yet to arrive it was a real surprise to hear today of the first fresh juvenile Siskin already visiting local feeders, with 2 newly fledged birds ringed at the Lower Piddle Vally Ringing Station at Carey this morning. This seems really early with juv Siskins not normally fledging until very late April at the earliest, and more typically in early May. There have also already been plenty of newly fledged Blackbird, Song Thrush and Robin logged, so perhaps things haven’t been slowed down too much because of the cooler start to Spring. This morning a stunning adult male Ring Ouzel was on the edge of Hartland Moor and up to 8 Wheatear were spread across the southern ridge of the moor. A Cuckoo was calling in the Corfe Valley this afternoon and another was heard near Slepe Heath. The Red-spotted Bluethroat was still at the eastern end of Swineham GP and a few Yellow Wagtail passed overhead calling too. The Forster’s Tern settled on Brownsea briefly this afternoon, a ‘new’ Osprey was seen fishing whilst our local pair were on the nest, a White-tailed Eagle was in Middlebere along with 1 Great White Egret and 7+ Wheatear along the track