Pencarnan Update

Following five consecutive days of wall to wall sunshine and planetary nights, today we added WATER RAIL to our patch list. We spotted it in the little valley that runs down to Porthselau Beach.

Yesterday we watched "our" KESTREL enter her cliff nest hole. Fingers crossed she is again successful in fledging a brood and Paddy can repeat last year's daring-do making a rope descent armed with pliers and rings.

It appears that three pairs of RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGES avoided winter predation from gun, fox and hound.

The boggy inflow to a camp-site pond, created only last year, already attracts COMMON SNIPE.

The conifer that stands sentinel at the camp's entrance has always been a magnet for early morning migrants. At dawn today, it was host to SISKIN, REDPOLL, WILLOW WARBLER, BLACKCAP and CHIFFCHAFF.

And finally; while walking through the gorse on the headland, what we would describe as a POLECAT, shot across our path. Can this be so?