The oat stubble below our house and adjacent to Cors Caron is providing food for a couple hundred corvids(an agri-enviro success then, we all know how much crows need help)and the swirling flock caught the eye of a passing peregrine who had a bit of fun chasing through them. Shortly before about a hundred chaffinches flew in high excitement from the field into one of our willows and set up a huge row together with the resident blackbird, wren and tits. Low in the tree sat a tawny looking twice normal size with its puffed feathers glowing richly in the sun.
There is a very interesting article about the relationship between Pere's and racing pigeons in the latest copy of 'Birds In Wales' the journal of the Welsh Ornithological Soc. New website worth looking at and conference coming up in Nov.