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BirdGuides 9bb267aa-3d3e-407c-bfff-97e0460fbb78 March typically heralds the beginning of spring migration in Britain. It s a month when most birders excitedly await their first sighting of a Northern Wheatear hopping across a grassy field, or a Sand Martin zipping freely above a waterbody. We sit through the cold and grey winter months knowing that these spirit-lifters will eventually return and render patient March birding – and indeed the winter slog – worthwhile. There is, however, a migrant that often reaches our shores a little before the much-vaunted wheatears and hirundines: the humble, but subtly gorgeous, White Wagtail.  As a subspecies, White Wagtail tends to get slightly neglected and forgotten amid the jolly jamboree of spring arrivals. But an encounter with one of these suave-looking members of the Motacillidae family is always of note, enough to raise a smile and well worth appreciating in full. Indeed, White Wagtail may well be the fi