Thursday, 7 January 2021

Salem

I have been down down to Salem several times recently to try to get to grips with the red kite roost. To say it is confusing is an understatement!  Birds using different trees and different areas of woodland, going in and leaving again. However I've had counts of 56 (2nd Jan) and 58 (5th Jan) birds on two evenings, which is kind of reassuring, and gives an idea of how many individuals might be there.

On the 2nd four stock doves flew out of the same general area, the first I have seen for months. On 6th I could see three swans in flight about a mile distant above the farm reservoir at Penycefn (towards Penrhyncoch). They could have been whoopers.

Jerry Moore