I went a walk around borth and ynyslas today, on the leri as has been stated was the scaup and a little grebe as well as 4 teal, 6 lapwing and 7 redshank. unfortunately i arrived at a bad time for the for my first welsh otter as there were alot of people at the boat yard so maybe next time. further out in the estuary at high tide were 120 wigeon, 9 shelduck, 2 redbreasted merganser, 1 shag and 1 little egret, 200+ curlew (which flew from the fields), 10 redshank and about 500 knot. At one point 2 peregrines came into attack at the same time both were unsuccessful, the female flew straight through but the male landed on a post and stayed there for about an hour, surprisingly being left alone by the birds in the area, they must have felt he was no threat without the element of surprise. despite a thourogh search i couldnt find a slavonian grebe and other birders came up with the same result, effort isnt always rewarded but luckily there were many other birds around. Between Borth and ynyslas were 21 sanderling and 12 ringed plover, pick of the birds out to sea were 100 common scoter, a great crested grebe was close in at Borth.
Tom Wells