Nature Notes: Bob Jarman discusses sightings in and around Cambridge during spring 2024. It’s been one of our wettest and warmest springs on record. For England and Wales rainfall was 150 per cent of the average for March and 155 per cent for April. Cloudy rain-filled skies kept the night-time air temperatures also above average. Yet despite the dismal wet weather there have been wildlife highlights. Early morning watchers of the peregrine falcon nest in the city centre on 1 June photographed a probable Montagu’s harrier flying over Pembroke College. This was a remarkable observation. Montagu’…
