Martletwy & Haverfordwest miscellany

From the car on way to Haverfordwest this afternoon - a single merlin spooked a couple of hundred lapwings, golden plovers and starlings in fields near the road at Martletwy (personally not seen that many merlins so far this winter). At Haverordwest, just before dusk, a fine barn owl (clutching a rodent in its talons) flew across a field alongside Vincent Davies's cafe. From this location, noted about 1,000 starlings in small flocks heading towards Plumstone roost but numbers were not particularly large whilst we watched from this location.