Sunday 21 September 2014

YNYSLAS and the DYFI

This morning there were 4 Red-throated Divers offshore at Ynyslas Turn car park.
Nearby there was a Black-tailed Godwit briefly at Glandwr plus 46 Wigeon. A huge Adder was warming itself in the early sunshine on the grassy embankment, just where I was about to sit.
By the Leri, a little upstream of the railway bridge were 3 Greenshanks and on the meadow by the path between the bridge and level crossing was a late Whinchat.
Walking along the Dyfi embankment upstream of the mouth of the Leri I watched a female Marsh Harrier soaring fairly low over the saltings with 2 Red Kites. They began to rise ever higher, often playfully interacting and were joined by a pale Buzzard. It was about the highest I have ever seen a soaring Marsh Harrier.