A walk through parts of Canaston Forest, some of it with NRW foresters, provided good views of various species already reported in earlier posts. These included tree pipits in four separate regrowing previous clear-fell glades and wood warblers in locations where beech predominates. Singing garden warblers were probably as numerous as blackcaps in zones with patches of quite dense scrub re-growth.
A male cuckoo was slightly unexpected, calling from tree-tops well inside the mature forest. Spotted flycatchers were back at a breeding location near Blackpool Mill but redstarts couldn't be seen/heard there this morning. Four marsh tits engaged in a bit of sparring along the border of their adjacent breeding territories. Two independent juvenile dippers were feeding along the river upstream of Blackpool Mill bridge.
