The bleak uplands

It's not often you go out birdwatching for 4 hours and see more rainbows than Carrion Crows but that's how it was this morning in the hills high above Llanddewi Brefi(450m asl). To be honest it wasn't all gloom. A flock of 12 Bullfinches frequented a bare,ravaged forestry plantation along with a number of Redpoll and Reed Bunting. In the plantation blocs over the road were a pair of Stonechats and a couple of Woodcock flushed from a ditch next to a forestry track.