A walk from Martin's Haven to Kete yesterday had good news about Choughs but bad news about Stonechats. A party of 9 Choughs flew in from Skomer early in the morning, and were greeted noisily by 2 resident birds. Later in the morning we found 5 Choughs feeding quietly on the cliffs near Kete.
However on the entire walk (around 8km, including a detour over the de-gorsed Dale Airfield) we did not find a single Stonechat.
The dramatic highlight was watching a Peregrine chase and (finally) take a pigeon. It took at least 4 goes, from above and below the pigeon, before it finally caught it.
Off Wooltack Point 0800-0930 good numbers of auks, Gannets over porpoises in the tidal race, and a pair of Common Scotor, but no Manxies.
