A good selection of waders at the Point at high tide yesterday included 8 golden plovers, five grey plovers, and a few sanderling. Fraid I didn’t count the dunlin or ringed plover! 2 Sandwich terns.
No sign of the woodchat in the fields between the “village” and the boatyard. Great views of the osprey pair from Dyfi Jct station, including copulation. A grasshopper warbler singing very loudly nearby.
On my BBS square above Tal-y-bont, only one stonechat; there’s usually several pairs. The grasshopper warbler had arrived and was singing....he’s moved a short distance from last year. In general resident birds (linnet, skylark, meadow pipit) seemed scarcer than normal. Trees continue to encroach on the bog from the Leri valley, with a consequent increase in woodland birds. Quite a few wheatears, probably mostly migrants – I don’t see them on my 2nd visit as a rule.
This morning on a Bird atlas tetrad to the north of Pendam, the willow warblers really were abundant. Easily the most numerous species. In fact there is some nice woodland edge habitat in the area with a good selection of birds, including several redstart. Peregrine on craig-y-pistyll.
jerry moore