Well, our family of swallows fledged yesterday. It's taken about four weeks since incubation started.
The adults stopped bringing food in on Sunday, on Monday morning the first youngster was in flight, and by lunchtime the nest was empty. I know the young are supposed to roost in the vicinity of the nest for a while, but it looks like ours couldn't wait to get away!
I'll miss them.
Jeremy Moore
Five green sandpipers together at Ynys-hir today on a small ditch near the Breakwater hide. Also a hobby and a few whinchat passing through the main section of the reserve (breeds on Foel Fawr and Allt-ddu sections of the reserve). A few clouded yellows near the Saltings hide.
Russell Jones
Warden
Ynys-hir RSPB reserve
Gwarchodfa natur Ynys-hir
This is the bird list for Llanrhystud 9th August
Turnstone 8, herring gull, cormorant, swallow, carrion crow, rock pipit 3, gannet, manx shearwater, common scoter, mallard 6, buzzard, linnet, wood pigeon, jackdaw, rook, ringed plover 35+, sand martin 20 to 25 nest holes, pied wagtail, whimbrel, oystercatcher 54, wheatear, black-headed gull, common sandpiper 2, Med. Gull 25, sandwich tern 2 adults and 1 juv, curlew 48, dunlin 18, sanderlings 3, green sandpiper, common gull 2 adults and 1 juv, great black-backed gull, chough 8, skylark, shelduck
Does anyone know if the terns and common gulls travel as families?
Moira Convery