Saturday, 13 March 2021

Castlemartin Corse - Marsh harriers!

A spectacular morning at the Corse, with a strong cold wind. Wing-tags was there to greet me! Reading the tags was touch-and-go, but I think this is good enough for IL. I'm starting to wonder if on the several occasions Debbie and Pete have seen him heading from Marloes in the direction of the airfield in the afternoon he might in fact have been heading back to the Corse to roost - it's on the same flight path. He clearly thinks nothing of a 10-mile flight.  



Also present was the (now) 2CY female, who was much more co-operative


My WEBS count wasn't bad either - 2 greylag (clearly a pair, upstream), 2 grey heron, 30 mallard, 24 teal, 14 shoveler, 30-odd snipe, and a male mute swan, the female almost certainly nearby, plus 100 herring gull and 14 lesser black backs. 2 Cetti's were singing. I counted 14 barn owl pellets in the hide, which is starting to look disgusting, and a 15th just outside under one of the viewing slots.