From Africa to Somerset – sand martins lead the way

The sound fell from the sky like notes from a stave; a chorus of twitters, tweets and rattles. Newly-arrived sand martins - my first long-distance migrants of the spring - hawking for invisible insects in the Good Friday sky, above the River Brue on the Somerset coast.

After the long flight from Africa, this Easter sunshine was just what they needed, to bump up their energy levels and get ready for the breeding season to come.