An extended visit to Ynyshir today, with the following sightings.
A very obliging pair of pied flycatchers close to the Ynyshir hide; photographers – now’s your chance! Also a blue tit nest about two metres from the hide window in a natural crevice.
Redstart numbers definitely up on late last week. However no wood warblers at all.
Grasshopper and sedge warblers, plus whitethroat, from the path around the Marian Mawr pools. About 100 canada geese on the pools and virtually nothing else.
Wader numbers at high tide were low, maybe 20 oystercatcher and a dozen or so curlew/whimbrel. (I couldn’t tell which)
A pair of goosander circling above Railway wood. Plenty of birdlife in the railway cutting included numbers of blackcap, a garden warbler, and a tawny owl which appeared from the ivy, crossed the cutting and then went back again, chased by a jay.
Still in search of wood warblers I found plenty on the north-facing side of Cwm Einion, in the beech trees. At least five singing males. A tree pipit above Felin-y-cwm. Thanks for the tea, Roy and Vicky!
At Ynyslas the evening high tide was very disappointing, no more than 25 dunlin/ringed plover altogether, and 2 oystercatchers.
jerry moore