Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Black-bellied brents

I was sea-watching off Borth this morning at 10.15am and in my scope I saw a high flying flock of geese far out to sea making a steady heading towards land when they got closer I could see that they were dark bellied Brent geese and there were 22 in all (maybe 23). They alighted on the sea just off Ynyslas. From their flight 'trajectory' I reckon they came from Ireland then I guess they may have flown from Pembrokeshire too but I'd put my money on the former theory. They were probably tired following the Irish sea crossing. Anyway keep your eyes open for these guys they may well end up the Dovey estuary somewhere to feed up. It was high tide at the time so perhaps they were 'aware' of that and would wait for the ebb and make their way to the estuary.
I saw the usual divers and scoters offshore.