Spring is on the horizon

Took the team for a walk along the stretch of coast between Påarps Mal and Torekov rev today. Sunny day but with a vicious NW wind that had us mostly sheltering in the surprisingly warm lees of various Cold War era bunkers. The wind brought some nice seabirds with razorbill (1 - somehow a year-tick), and my first fulmar (1) and little gull (2K) of the year too. Plenty of skylarks on the move and perhaps a few buzzards sneaking past north as well. No sign of any purple sandpipers at the rev but 15 shelduck feeding along the edge of the slushy ice offshore can only be a sign of spring surely!