Spring well...... springing a bit?

19 Feb - a passable dawn (well, fairly early morning) chorus at Waterhay this morning, with my first singing Blackbird of the year, together with Song Thrushes, 4 Reed Buntings, 4 Cetti's Warblers, a Chiffchaff (presumably an overwinterer), Wrens and Dunnocks. A pair of Great crested Grebes in full display at Cleveland Lakes, sadly about to be sold with a likely intrusion on the tranquility of this corner of CWP. The unseasonably mild temperatures may last a few days yet. A cycle around Southrop area north of Lechlade later produced several singing Yellowhammers, a male Stonechat, a calling Nuthatch, 100s of winter thrushes, and 2 Red Kites.