RICHARD'S PIPIT

Bob and I had enjoyed a great morning's birdwatching by the Dyfi estuary, a little upstream of the Leri. There was a good variety of waders, including Knot and Black-tailed Godwits and wildfowl, including Pintail. A Peregrine passed overhead and we had a distant view of the Greenland White-fronted Geese, in the air towards the Clettwr meadows. On our way back we were watching a mixed flock of Linnets, Reed Buntings and Skylarks on the saltings, just below the sea-wall embankment, when we noticed a Richard's Pipit feeding with a couple of Skylarks. After enjoying good, but brief scope views, the pipit flew upstream to the saltings off the river Clettwr.