I was interested to see the reports of red legged partridge in Machynlleth. I recorded two on the way to the lower Clettwr last year, (14 March) and at the time thought that they, and two others that I saw on the back road from Bow Street to Penrhyncoch many years ago, buried deep in my records, were released birds. So thanks Elfyn, must delete the Clettwr records at least from my 2008 list!
Grey partridge has got scarce nationally, they depend on cereals and insects, so intensive practices have been very damaging.
Following my comments on George Bush, I was amused to see a letter in The Independent yesterday saying that should investigators find that the cause of the near-calamity in the forced landing on the Hudson river was Canada geese, that it was hoped that George Bush, as a last hurrah, doesn't start bombing Ottawa.