DRAMA at NEW QUAY

This morning Meurig Williams and I spent a couple of hours at the shell-fish plant. 4 Arctic and 2 Great Skuas were chasing Terns and Kittewakes and a Manx Shearwater, quite close in, was lucky to escape from persistant attacks from a Greater Black-backed Gull. Less fortunate was a Sandwich Tern which a Peregrine was determined to catch. After a prolonged chase, with the falcon itself being attacked by other terns and gulls, it grabbed the tern but when flying back to the shore was so harried by five immature Herring Gulls, that it dropped its, by now dead prey onto the water.
Chris Bird rang to tell us about the 10 Glossy Ibis at Pembrey in Carmarthenshire and we just had to go down there.
I know that birds outside of Ceredigion do not count, but perhaps these deserve some space on this web site. Some were ringed,apparently in the Carmargue in southern France.