A conversation in the Freshwater West car park this morning with Steve Alderman of Castlemartin supports the idea that the tagged marsh harrier may indeed be roosting at the Corse and commuting daily to Marloes, however unlikely this may sound. Yesterday at around 08:30 Steve (without bins) saw two dark brown harriers from the car park, flying together. They flew towards Angle, circled back....he couldn't stay to see what happened next. Steve wasn't aware of the wing tags saga. Later on, Brian and others saw Wing-tags about to have teal for lunch at Marloes Mere.
Today, just the 2CY female was on patrol in the reedbed - she had a brief scuffle with a young male peregrine by Starman's Hall.
Two sand martins were flying over the pond behind the car park, two more from the hide. At least 3 Cetti's singing. A lot more duck than I saw on my WEBS count the other day - around 70 teal, 30 shoveler, a few mallard, grey heron, little egret, moorhen, water rail.....
