Natural History Wanderings

The Guardian reports

Warm autumn has brought almost 100 to Britain, a development that is no cause for celebration.

While birders are understandably excited by the record numbers of pallid swifts in the UK, their appearance – like the bee-eaters that bred in Norfolk last spring – are another warning of rapid and worrying changes in our climate. As the appearance of these Mediterranean birds reveals, temperatures more like summer than autumn should not be celebrated, but feared.

Read more at  Pallid swifts come to UK shores amid worrying changes in climate | Climate crisis | The Guardian