The website looks really good a great job Richard!
Birds out and about down the river; a family of Dippers with around four fledged under Cwmrheidol bridge a family of Mallards a bit further down the river with three large ducklings a Tawny Owl on top of a telegraph pole, fifteen Red Kites plus two Buzzards in a recently cut hay field, unfortunately a few Sand Martin burrow entrances in the colony above Glanorafon bridge were submerged during the recent heavy water on the Rheidol but I think most had fledged at least one brood (no Kingfishers). In the garden; three recently fledged Song Thrushes (that’s a first for the garden) they could not fly but boy could they run fast! a second more successful brood of cherry picking Blackbirds (despite my netting) Great Tits, Blue Tits and a platoon of both Hs Martins and Sparrows. One Swift occasionally using the gable box and another two large Swifts (wanabe Hs Martins) they were back and forward all day Sunday and at it again this morning I’ve now hastily erected a Swift box on the west wall. Finally whilst watching a screaming party last night at the front of the house they flew into a telegraph wire with a terrific whack I was shocked and expected to see a bird on the drive but they appear to be made of sturdier stuff.
p.s. the spotty has five chicks doing well
Tony Clark