Castlemartin Corse, Carew

A marsh harrier - I think our first summer male who has been here for many months - was standing on a fence post in the fen meadow when I arrived. All-dark upperparts apart from white cap, also dark below apart from pale undersides to flight feathers.

Back at Carew Roundabout on the A477, a red kite was scrapping with herring gulls over small mammals as contractors harvested silage