Todays birds in the North of the county

A relaxed walk on Foel Fawr this afternoon and Buster and I bumped into 2 Tree Pipits, 2 Whinchats and 2 Yellowhammers. Earlier John and I weren't able to locate a pair of Garganey seen by Russell Jones at Ynys-hir this morning, we also dipped out on a Wood Sandpiper seen by Marc Hughes at Borth. But we did see a beautiful Spotted Redshank in breeding plumage at Ynys-hir, as well as 2 Slow Worms lazily basking in the weak sunshine. They had apparently not reached optimum temperature because they were very docile. One of them could hardly be bothered to protest when I picked him up to have a closer look. I carefully replaced him on the ground and he wriggled away adagio, a very slow worm.