We
visited Caldey today to check out chough sites etc. We were able to confirm
three breeding pairs which was nice.
A hoopoe was
seen feeding briefly on the grassy path to the Lighthouse this morning, it flew
towards the village/woodland zone, but we did not see it again.
A merlin put
in a brief appearance near Redberry Bay just as an adult peregrine flew over
the island heading out to sea. Three greylags in flight above Sandtop Bay were
most likely to be breeding somewhere on the island. Breeding ravens were
also feeding young at one location.
There
were not many obvious migrant passerines around, but a few few wheatears and a
willow warbler were probably birds just passing through.
We
had a message yesterday from Paul Culyer, NRW, who had been told by
Castlemartin Range staff that someone (don't know who) had seen a ring ouzel near the Warren Tower public viewing area yesterday.