Wednesday 25 March 2020

Hen Harriers on St Davids Peninsula.

A stunning male Hen Harrier at Dowrog before the lock-down on Sunday was my first male there this winter. There has been a ringtail roosting that looks like its moulting into a male, with pale grey feathers amongst the brown. Yesterday, now confined at home near Trefin, i could hear (from the garden) Snipe, alarm calling as a few birds scattered in all directions - the culprit being a ringtail Hen Harrier hunting low - lots of grey feathering, so maybe the bird from Dowrog. Ive also seen probably the same bird hunting the fields south of Llanrhian a few times.
Yesterday an obvious influx of Chiffchaffs, with singing birds all over the place, with a passage Wheatear at Llanrhian (all on the one daily allowable walk).
Finally, again pre-lockdown, an almost entirely white Magpie in a roadside hedge by the Fishguard Fort car park on Sunday.