I visited Craig-yr-Adar (Bird's Rock) in New Quay again today with the intention of showing someone the auks but guess what there wasn't an auk in sight! There were Shags and Fulmar about on the cliffs in fact one shag was sitting on a nest! We did get a pair of Choughs foraging in a field behind the old coastguard lookout one (the larger of the 2 birds) had colour leg rings fitted i.e.- left yellow, right orange- if are you reading this Tony Cross- Origin please?
At 3pm we visited the kite feeding station at Penlan in Talsarn which is run by Susanna Binsted. We reckoned that there were between 150-200 kites present at feeding time. What a truly 'spectacular' sight! There were also 11 Buzzards present and Ravens calling. A Great Spotted Woodpecker was 'drumming' on a tree behind Susanna's house.