A Great Black-backed Gull picking clean a Seal pup carcas on the beach at Freshwater West this morning. In the dunes the other side of the road from the beach the male Hen Harrier again performing, at one point swooping down and putting up an immature Peregrine. Also 16 Chough, a Kestrel and, on Castlemartin Corse, in excess of 700 Lapwing and c.80 Golden Plover. Many Starlings about near the bridle path which leads up from the beach road together with several hundred finches.
