Monday, April 12th

I cycled through Sneed Park and onto the Portway, then came up Bridge Valley Road and back via the Gorge Top path to the Peregrine Watch, then home. Just before the Peregrine Watch I spied a hunting Peregrine slowly gliding up above Nightingale Valley, eventually disappearing from my view. Earlier on the side of Portway, just below Black Rocks a Kestrel dived into a patch of daffodils and came out carrying a mouse, he flew off to the cliff, then over behind it. It looks as if the Kestrel nest is elsewhere this year, this bird did not take it's kill to the cliff above me. Earlier I had a ringside seat for a small group of Redshank on the mud/water edge - much better than the cliff top. The works on Bridge Valley Road looks very serious, I cannot see it being open for months yet.

Sunday April 11th

I cycled via Broadmead, the Docks, and then walked up the NT Nature Trail beside the river to Burwalls, to cross the Suspension Bridge. Apart from Gulls and Pigeons it was all very quiet. Many of the trees are showing buds, so in the Gorge the Whitebeams are all starting leaves. At the Peregrine Watch a Buzzard was driven away from the vicinity of the Raven's nest by one of the birds. At Sea Walls there was a solitary Redshank on the mud.