Monday 22nd

I did not see a Kestrel this morning, but only stayed at Black Rocks to watch for about 20 minutes split over two visits. Whilst I was waiting a very small bird flitted along through the bushes at the top of the cliff, and perched among the perpetual peas, its greenish brown underparts and very small size - less than a blue tit - leads me to identifying a Willow Warbler. A Peregrine was just visible as a small white speck on the back end of the nest, on my second visit the 'speck' had disappeared - so it really was a Peregrine! A peregrine was perched over on a dead tree in the wood behind the Raven's nest, it moved along to another tree top whilst I cycled around the Downs.