08 February 2011

Hen Harrier update

Peter Douglas-Jones captured this beautiful image of a female Hen Harrier at Oxwich Marsh recently, providing a good excuse to produce an update of the BTO Winter Atlas sightings collated on MapMate. As usual the red squares show winter tetrads over the last four years, large red dots all post-1999 records, small red dots pre-2000 and black-centred dots show sightings this year. West Gower has been particularly good for this species the last couple of winters and there have probably been 7-8 around the last few months, including a some stunning male birds.

4 comments:

Caroline Gill said...

A stunning image.

Mark Hipkin said...

Apologies for not commenting before now Peter. It is, as Caroline says, a stunning image.

Anonymous said...

Also seen three weeks ago in Middleton

Braydee89 said...

Hi, I saw one of these beautiful birds on Saturday near Swansea airport on the A4118 heading towards Dunvant.