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Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) have already been seen on their way north in quite large flocks. Will these early northwards flyers survive? Depends on whether winter cold returns. But the time for arriving here is quite right – when the first snowfree patches appear from under the melting snow, the skylarks are always here.

 

Now in early spring even town-dwellers might get to hear the lark, when the birds are passing through. Later they are only to be seen in fields and meadows, the skylarks like open landscapes. There trees will not hinder them from rising high up above the nest, marking the home territory with their singing and otherwise keeping watch over the surroundings.

 

So if there is a twittering above your head but no singer to be seen then it is a skylark singing.