A meander around the woods by Manorbier Castle with Richard Ellis this morning started off well with 3 Blackcaps (2 males and a female type) in the trees at the back of the car park. Another male Blackcap was seen in the woods on the north side of the castle. Otherwise the woods were pretty quiet apart from plenty of Long Tailed Tits, a few Goldcrests, Blue and Great Tits and a couple of G S Woodpeckers. In the fields between Jamestown and Manorbier there was a large flock of Skylarks - 200+. A group of berry laden Hawthorn trees held 20 or more Redwings and with them a couple of Greenfinches and some Chaffinches.
