Pushed northwards by global heating, exotic birds like the rainbow bee-eater seen nesting in Norfolk will likely become established summer visitors
Rainbow-hued bee-eaters breeding on the Norfolk coast this summer and three rare black-winged stilts fledglings in Yorkshire are an “unmissable sign” that the nature and climate emergency has reached Britain, according to conservationists.
Bee-eaters did not breed in Britain between 1956 and 2001 but this is now the sixth nesting attempt this century, with birds nesting in County Durham in 2002, Herefordshire in 2002, the Isle of Wight in 2014, Cumbria in 2015 and Nottinghamshire in 2017, when nests in a quarry failed because of bad weather.
The starling-sized bee-eaters have red backs, blue bellies and yellow throats, and can be seen feeding on bees, dragonflies and other flying insects which they catch in mid-air.in Doncaster, three black-winged stilts this week fledged from what is believed to be the most northerly nest in Britain for a wading species, which is rare in this country and does not breed here every year.Trust, said: “It’s been a tense wait but we’re overjoyed.
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