Bird watching as a passenger sometimes proves to be worthwhile as it did yesterday when travelling back along the coast just north of Aberaeron.The cliffs are high and I got a birds eye view of a Peregrine attacking not a starling but a bird larger than itself,a buzzard no less.It repeatedly came down with such speed that there were several hard blows struck.The victim ,possibly an interloper was apparently unaffected but didn't hang around for the enslaught to continue.
This morning again by chance I glanced out of the upstairs window and to my amazement caught a fine view of the white egret in flight and it landed near the river bank,but unfortunately not for long as the shallow pools were frozen over!
It must have been looking for breakfast ,I hope it was more successful further down stream.
Lis Collison