Saturday 13 February 2010

My birds today

At Ynyslas this morning there was a male stonechat in the scrub land between the dunes car park and Searivers caravan park and late afternoon I saw another male near the railway crossing at Ynyslas. There was a kingfisher on the Leri upriver of the road bridge and an egret upriver of the railway bridge. Very late evening (5.30pm) a male hen harrier was hunting over the fields and the bog. There were a few golden plover and curlew on the pasture between searivers and Ty Gwyn Ynyslas. A few great crested grebe offshore but I couldn't find any divers. There were six turnstone under the pier at Aberystwyth and the usual black redstart on the old college building.