I've just returned from Ynys-hir having managed to avoid the heavy showers forecast by the next to useless weathermen/women on radio 4. My granny gave much more accurate predictions, depending on how her bunions felt.
I couldn't get to the Breakwater Hide, the path was under quite a lot of water. Instead I spent some time looking at the flooded field behind it where there were hundreds of Teal and masses of Starlings. I also saw Curlew, (I counted 125 in one group, but there were more) Lapwings, Wigeon, 4 Little Egrets and 1 Snipe. I stopped on the mound by "Poggles Bench" to look at a couple of Greylag Geese and 18 Barnacle Geese on the saltings. Whilst I was watching them another 180 Barnacles flew over heading up the estuary. There were 4 Shoveler on the pond viewable from the cross roads. From the Saltings Hide I saw 3 very handsome male Pintails and more Wigeon, Curlew, Barnacle Geese and one more Greylag.