Quail ...........

On Tuesday (15th) I was delighted to hear Quail calling on Brawdy Airfield alongside the main runway and shortly after saw two jump out of a Ryegrass patch and whirr together into mixed grassland. Two days later I also heard Quail calling on St.Davids Airfield (in the southeast quadrant opposite Llanungar Fawr), and still calling on Brawdy (listen from the roadside by turning north at PenyCwm on the Treffgarne Owen road, and pausing at the sand quarry entrance, just 1/2 mile up) on the same day. Still calling on St.Davids Airfield yesterday.
Must be a small influx from the continent on the recent easterly winds, but listen for them in cereal fields too: "Wet-my-lips". They have bred on rare occasions in the past. Are there more out there?
(Ian Bullock)

St. Ishmael's;-
2 seen today, running then flying, & dropping into a wheatfield on the coast path by the backlight.
(Paul Warren)