New arrivals since last week in this area were a tree pipit, several whitethroats and lots of reeling grasshopper warblers - still havent seen redstart here yet. At least one merlin has been present every visit and it is one of the few birds of prey that the breeding pair of kestrels routinely ignore. Everything else including buzzards, kites, sparrowhawks and corvids get hammered by the kestrels if they stray within about 100 yards of the nest box. Willow warblers seem particularly numerous in the Preselis this year, and in some places there are so many audible at once that their songs just blur into one continuous warbling.
