Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Ynyslas this morning

Buster and me bumped into Harry at Ynyslas this morning, we went to see what birds were pushed towards us on the reasonably high tide. Before we met H I saw 1 Common Tern in amongst about 30 Sanwiches and 2 Wigeon on the sea with about 20 Common Scoter.  I estimated c200 Manx Shearwaters passed, heading north during the 20 minutes I spent watching.
At the point we enjoyed good views of various waders - Dunlin, Ringed Plover, c25 Sanderling, 1 Curlew Sandpiper and 1 Knot.
We then visited Glandwr where there were another 5 Dunlin, 3 more Wigeon, 5 Shoveler, about 25 Teal and 4 Black-tailed Godwit.