Friday, 21st September

I think I could see some Redshank on the mud between Sea Walls and the Peregrine Watch cliff, they are very small birds and quite difficult to pick out, even with binoculars. The Swallows (or are they House Martins, they too are difficult to see) were flying around the quarry opposite the Peregrine Watch, then when I looked towards the Suspension Bridge I could see a cloud of them over Nightingale Valley. Suddenly a young female Peregrine came into view, she was gliding just above the tree tops, hunting, and at one stage dived at a Wood Pigeon - and missed - she seemed to be flying in a cloud of the Swallows! I think it was a distance illusion.