A visit to Minwear and Pickle woodlands this afternoon, to undertake some recording for the BTO Cudyll Cymru (Monitoring Raptors in Wales) project, produced target species, e.g. buzzards displaying.
Among numerous woodland residents seen and/or heard, at least a dozen or more blackcaps were singing in expected territory areas (based on where they have been recorded in previous annual BBS observations). Several chiffchaffs were also singing in the woodland, in usual/expected places.
A look over the Eastern Cleddau below the picnic site produced several swallows and others near Blackpool Mill. There must have been at least 20 or more feeding over the river but, surprisingly, no sand martins. A single dipper was seen in a usual territory zone near Blackpool Mill.
NB all species were identified (as usual) by trusted human eyes and ears only!