After a couple of days coughing and spluttering indoors, today cabin-fever kicked in so I just had to get out. I went to Cors Caron but had to retreat owing to a really cold downpour of something between rain and snow. But not before seeing a Peregrine dash over the feeding site near the new toilets - the chaff, gold and greenfinches dispersed like a grenade going off. I also saw a marsh tit further along the path as well as redwings and fieldfares.
Black redstarts are one of my bogey-birds, but this afternoon on my way home I got a good look at the male which was on the old college building in Aberystwyth.