Ewden valley 5/8/18.

Quite breezy this aft but dry and warm. Very steady and sometimes slow birding with cc Marsh Harrier, Peregrine ad.fem., with possibly 2 birds, Merlin 1, C Buzzard scarce, just 1, Kestrel 10, plentiful. Raven scarce, just 1, Curlew not many left with just a party of 5 juvs. Stonechat 2 juvs were the first of the year here. 6 Redpolls near the cabin and big numbers of Swallows and House Martins going south with some feeding up in the heather + 15 Swifts.