3 pairs of Spotted Flycatchers are nesting in our fairly wooded garden near Ystrad Meurig, in open boxes at opposite corners of the house and on a garden shed.
They are protected from Jays by a chicken wire cage the spotties fly through.
First redcap GS woodpeckers and fledged blue tits and nuthatches in garden.
Peregrine flying off with GS woodpecker from wooded garden on mountain road past Cwm Ystwyth mines, could not see whether juv or adult.
A pied flycatcher on the roadside fence by Hafod and 3 redhead mergansers flying round the lake just before Rhayader.
Philip Ellis