No peregrines seen in usually occupied non breeding site, however a pair of peregrines was present soaking up the warm sunshine just around the corner from their usual breeding cliff, which is in a shaded position. Also at same location, a pair of choughs, one with rings [black over green right, yellow over BTO left leg]. Interestingly, at near enough the same place, the rather macabre remains of a meadow pipit, impaled on barbed wire fence; the barb entered through the throat and exited through the open beak. Coincidentally this was about half a mile from the place where several years ago two bats, a pipistrelle and natterer's, had got caught on wire by their wing membranes.
I attach a photograph of the pipit's head
impaled, [could a shrike be responsible, any suggestions?] and a sketch of
the female peregrine sunning itself.
