Although there are probably more exciting harbingers of spring, for us the first Rook making it all the way out to the Bill from the mainland - so often a noisy individual like today's that ends up pitching in on the wires between the Obs and the Obs Quarry - usually substantially precedes the likes of the more iconic first Wheatear or Swallow and helps to make winter seem just that little bit shorter © Martin Cade:
