Birding Group Field Trip Report

14 of us attended The Ceredigion Birding Group field trip this morning. Red Liford took us along the same stretch of the Aberaeron coast-line as Hywel Roderick did on our first outing on Saturday November 11th 2006. I'm afraid I didn't make a record of all the species seen but from memory I recall - Turnstones, Ringed Plover, Guillemot, Cormorant, Shag, Common Scoter, Common Gull, and Med Gull. After lunch we moved on to Cross Inn Forest and our numbers increased to 16. I think most of us were keen to see the Great Grey Shrike which has been seen there recently but it wasn't to be. However we did see Bullfinch, Long-tailed Tit, (a Willow Tit was heard but not seen) Goldcrest and Stonechat. We also flushed 10 or 11 Snipe that had sat tight in spite of the hounds that were dashing all over the place in pursuit of foxes.