... the butterfly-like flight with slow wingbeats was performed into the wind while the bird sang its hauntingly beautiful song 'pu -peeeo' over and again ... then into normal rapid wingbeat mode downwind to start again ...
... a flock of around fifty Golden Plovers suddenly dashed by - maybe northern breeders still to return to their breeding grounds ...
Ravens flew by, pausing to perform some aerobatics on the way and pairs of Curlews looked intent on settling into territories.
A pair of Stonechats lingered with the male catching a large moth at one point ...
Lower down Lapwings displayed exuberantly and a few Snipe 'chitted' , a Ring Ouzel dashed up a gully and a Wheatear flitted around the animal pens ...
Back in the valley the bare bushes were alive with Willow Warbler song ...
Spring had arrived !
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