Merlin

A brief evening visit to Sydvestpynten in moderate easterlies produced a female Merlin that zipped past me as it hunted over the marsh. Two Green Sandpipers and 4 Snipe were on the pool. A pipit gave me the run around before finally giving itself up as a juvenile Meadow Pipit (not the hoped for Red-throated!) and I called it a night after devouring some of the blackberries along the hedge - mmm..