Llanon for the high tide this morning and, at last, sunshine! Wheatear on the beach, whitethroat plus juv at Lime kilns, plenty of sand martin activity at the cliff including a house martin that was swooping up to the cliff with the sandies...confused?
22 eclipse or female Mergansers/Goosanders flew North at 7:15am, did anyone else see them to establish which they were?
1 whimbrel,14 curlew,57 oystercatchers inc the whitish one, 18 ringed plover,2 dunlin and 1 turnstone.
Sandwich tern with juv. amongst 60+ meds and 20+ black headeds. 5 birds were ringed,4 with colour rings which I will report in. Med Gull fanatics in France and Belgium are reading hundreds of rings as the birds travel down the coast of N Europe; it took me about an hour to read 4! The birds were preening furiously and the ring is always join side on, if you know what I mean.
Pleasure to see a couple of common blues amongst the beach side flowers.