Not only are E. Subalpine warblers back, one spent yest morning in our yard. And on the car. A nice addition to our Sardinian neighbour from the day before.

Video is superb on its own, but the thread has some other gems too...

Taking the cat for a walk one April a few years back. He’d get to a certain point each time, whine, then abandon. Always got a decent view of the Prespa lakes, mind. April 2015, above Ay. Yermanos.

Looking back over some photos of a road trip from Prespa to Tirana via Ohrid. St John at Kaneo, Ohrid, still some snow on the mountains. Then three from Tirana. April 2015.

Black-winged stilts are back and we’re having a barney yesterday evening. (Himantopus himantopus, Oropos lagoon, Attica, Greece)

Prespa memories. Spring is upon us and the snows recede, yet the weather forecast says Balkan mountains may get more snow this week. Here is most of Lesser Prespa (the Albanian sliver is hiding to the left) and on the right, the thin isthmus that separates it from Great Prespa.

Enjoying breakfast this morn and noted someone else was munching away too. Or at least we think it's eating. Do woodlice often eat on their backs?

Our (football) field of orchids. 100s of what we think are bumblebee orchids (Ophrys bombyliflora?) and also a serapias. (S. vomercea perhaps?) Whilst we'd love to see kids here using the field - the neighbourhood is low on families - it being mowed once a year has advantages.

Our first 'snake eagle' of the year. Hovered above us, whilst we stopped to collect a bit of chamomile. And that was feeding an interesting little beetle. At least we think it's a beetle. But can't immediately find it in Brock. ID? @garyfromleeds ? #balkanbugs #insects #greece

All about the Greek red damselfly. Endemic to Greece and also southern Albania. But no one knows exactly where. PPNEA

Never really noticed the ‘wasteland’ next to the supermarket car park. We did today!

Red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica), graciously showing its behind to the camera. Found throughout the Balkan peninsula each spring. Attica, Greece. #balkanbirds

Brilliant image. And we can see our house in the top left! Taken above Evia looking over the south Evian gulf to the Greek mainland.