Friday, 19 September 2014

Osprey over Cors Caron

I chose to walk the railway line today hoping to hear one of the yellow-browed warblers that have poured into Britain recently even reaching Bardsey, but it was very quiet and I had to amuse myself watching a moorhen feeding vigorously on the little pond by the hide on the Fflur.  After 30 minutes of that I was scanning the sky and admiring 8 mallard on a flyover when another shape flew into view, came towards me and hovered over the ponds: OSPREY!  Thinking better of contaminating its feathers   with weed and scum off it went to the south west.  Raggedy tail and not trailing tags or transmitter I think it was an adult.

Elsewhere in the UK (No but yes, it still is) there are late breeding attempts:  barn owls are having a bumper year (see Tony Cross' blog: Ruffled feathers) and John Lloyd our BTO man in Carmarthen has reported a singing Mistle Thrush carrying net material into a high tree!