From the Observatory.

06.30hrs. No ospreys in the Dyfi Junction area. Random snipe chipping early on Tyn-O-Hir and Ynys saltings. ONE HARE gathering the early rays of the sun, sheltering out of an increasing breeze behind a clump of soft rush. 08.04hrs. A solitary greylag chuntering on its way to the Dyfi flood plain. A little later 3 greylags return very high to the estuary. 10.27hrs. An osprey perched atop an electricity pole to continue feeding on a half-eaten fish, in the middle of the Tyn-O-Hir bog. 13.15hrs. This female departed circling high, drifting westward to the estuary still carrying its mutilated fish. 14.53hrs. A male LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER on the nut feeders in the garden again returning to the Llyfnant woods later. 15.31hrs. "Barking Billy," our resident barnacle goose has returned to us having not seen him for several months. By 16.00hrs. 3 kites in all their glory, enjoyed all the more in this brilliant sunshine.19.00hrs. A female osprey slowly floating into the wind with another big fish from the estuary, TO RETURN TO THE SAME ELECTRICITY POLE on the Tyn-O-Hir bog! The fish almost too big to control: She places herself at severe risk of electrocution.

As darkness settles across the estuary, dusky gatherings of cormorants increasingly return to their traditional summer roost on and near that long suffering scots pine adjacent to the Domen Las hide at Ynys Hir. The maximum counted in a previous year was 97. The current number is 24 and increasing, with 20 ( at least ) little egrets fidgeting and fluttering in contrast to the clusters of quieted cormorants. A grand finale to the day!