Friday, 30 April 2010

Late posting from Tuesday 27th, SN15Q atlas tetrad

We found 46 species while surveying this square near cardigan this included fulmars, guillemots, razorbills and shags nesting on the island, 4 barnacle geese, 4 shelduck, 5 whimbrel, 10 skylark, 4 sand martins, 29 swallows, 4 house martins, 2 stonechat, 2 wheaters, 4 whitethroat, 1 chough, a singing willow warbler, 13 goldfinch and 18 linnets.

Tom Wells, Alice Waterhouse, Nia Stephens and Tom Pinches

SN15Q is a tetrad west of cardigan, containing the north end of a small village called Gwberth includes just under half of cardigan island and an area of coastline on the mainland, the farmland in the square is part of the farm park

Tom