Thursday, 1 September 2011
Ynyslas this morning
I did an extra hour and a half birding this morning whilst I waited for the tide to recede so that I could drive away from where I'd parked my car. I watched a gathering of approx 650 small waders near the point comprising mostly Dunlin and Ringed Plover but with them were 10-12 Sanderling, 2 Turnstone, 5 Knott and 1 Bar-tailed Godwit. There were also c70 Sandwich Terns. They all dispersed pdq when a couple of Peregrines attacked, one of them made a kill. Earlier there was a single Common Tern with another flock of Sandwich closer to the Leri.