29/12/2010 5 whoopers flying and calling over the railway line Cors Caron.
31/12/2010 10 crossbills in pairs singing in fir woods Cwm Berwyn.
Re Egret: in April 2009 a little egret was seen on Tristan da Cunha! It eclipsed the endemics that the world birders had paid a lot of money to see! Also on that and previous trips across the southern Atlantic cattle egrets were seen flying south....next landfall:Antarctica! One was eaten by a skua and one landed on the boat and was transported north in a box for 14 days to be released on an island previously visited by cattle egrets. It was suggested that this dispersal is a survival strategy and one reason egrets are so widely distributed, though I didn't find any colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula!!