Terry Hobson, on one of his visits over here, saw a juv. Sabine's Gull off Aberystwyth on Sunday. Chris Bird also tells me that there were Redwings between Trisant and Devil's Bridge on Sunday and that one of Aberystwyth's regular Mediterranean Gulls is still about and seen this afternoon on College Rocks. It is an adult, ringed as a chick in northern France at Seine-et-Marne in June 2006 and first seen here in July 2008. This year it was back at Aberystwyth by 26th July.
Matt Potter's sighting of a Little Owl in the uplands is interesting, all the more so given some news I received last week from Brian Kington, a regular visitor from the Midlands. On mentioning that he had been seeing Little Owls in the Borth area he added that someone who rings Buzzard chicks in Oxford and Buckingham noted that in all of his 20 nests, there were the remains of Little Owls!