I sometimes see a hawk and I'm not sure whether it's a spar or a gos. But then I remember that if you're not sure, like the distant golden eagle/buzzard scenario, it probably isnt a goshawk!
One evening about a week ago just outside the house I saw a huge hawk
powering northwards at quite a low level. It appeared to be heading for a flock
of jackdaws but as I didn't have my bins with me, lost it against the hillside.
A female goshawk, without a doubt.
I'm hearing a few wood warblers singing from the edges of forestry
plantations these days. Are they moving into forestry like some of the other
warblers seem to be doing?
And finally an inland pair of peregrines has three large young, which
looked yesterday as if they were ready to jump ship! A few years ago it was said
that most inland sites in Ceredigion had lost their peregrines, but several of
them now seem to be occupied again.
Jerry Moore