A brief lunchtime visit to College Rocks on the falling tide today produced a count of 8 Purple Sandpipers, and a Kingfisher fishing in the rock pools. I focussed my binoculars on a group of 5 Ringed Plovers at the tide edge, then swung back right to find the Kingfisher stuggling in the talons of a female Kestrel sitting on the rocks; it must have sooped in un-noticed! The kestrel seemed to overcome and kill the kingfisher quite quickly, and dropped down in a gulley in the seaweed covered rocks to eat it out of sight of the prom - I could just make out an occasional head coming up as it plucked bits off it...
On a lighter note, the male Black Redstart was flitting about on the sunny side of the Old Coll roofs as usual, sporting his shiny ring.
This afternoon the Barnacle Geese were still in the far end field to the west of the Clettwr - at dusk they flew off with a great deal of "yelping", and headed off up-estuary towards Ynyshir. Nice to hear Curlew bubbling their spring calls, and a single Dipper on the river, although complete lack of Meadow Pipits or other small passerines.