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.