Sunday 14 February 2010

BORTH - YNYSLAS

This morning, on a calm sea, under a bright blue sky, there were exactly 300 Common Scoters visible offshore, plus 10 Great Crested Grebes, but only a couple of Red-throated Divers. (Wallog, between Borth and Clarach, is probably where most of them were feeding.)
At Ynyslas there were 12 Sanderling, a Merlin, 10 or so Snipe, a couple of Woodcock and a friendly party of birdwatchers from Cheshire. Earlier they had seen a Slavonian Grebe off Upper Borth and 5 Purple Sandpipers on the rocks there.