Friday 6th April

High tide this morning: a cormorant passed down river, flying high over Leigh Woods, another flew very low over the water: three buzzards were circling over Leigh Woods (why three?); one of the peregrines was perched on the cliff. I did not see it, but did see a 'photo taken a few minutes earlier, the raptor was perched on a rock just below us. The 'photo was taken by Andras Kovacs of Bird Life International (Hungary) cf Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület, Andras studies European eagles, and like many others is drawn to what must be one of the best sites there is to see and photograph peregrines. We are lucky! I hear that there is a security camera watching the nest this year. It would be great to see this on the web as a web cam, and would increase the number of eyes keeping guard! I did not see the ravens, not on the nest either.

Wednesday 4th April

Brrr! It was very cold this morning. I could not see the raven, the nest is jammed between the rock face and a small silver birch. I expect the bird was crouching low on the nest. High water with nothing else much about.

Tuesday April 3rd

The cold has returned! The flock of jackdaws was flying around again, there must be about 50 of them, they rise from the cliffs to the right of the Peregrine Watch andswing around in a large group, the pairs of jackdaws are often obvious, even in such a large group. I think that they were annoyed at a couple of crows this morning. It looked as if they were chasing crows: egg or nest material theft?

Sunday, Monday 1st & 2nd April

Just as I arrived at the Peregrine Watch on Sunday I spotted a peregrine circling around the trees beside the quarry opposite. A large flock of jackdaws took off and tried to mob him, but he singled out one and chased it down to the water, then to a small tree at the side of the river. It was a very near miss and that jackdaw must have been terrified! The peregrine subsequently flew up and over towards Burwalls, the last I saw was a rapid descent from a height. A kill perhaps?
Monday. High water with no mud. A peregrine took off from the cliff below me and flew to the right, over a small quarry, and into the trees. I lost him, but later thought I might have seen his light front shining from tree over that way. It could have been a light branch. A raven could just be seen sitting on the nest opposite.