Spent a superb hour at Ynys Feurig hide, with ideal
conditions i.e good visibility, calm and a high tide.
The flood below the hide had an amazing spectacle of more
than 2000 ducks and waders.
The highlights were 160 redshank, 4 curlew, 3 snipe, 240
dunlin, 1300 lapwing, 430 teal, 12 shoveler. Birds on the high tide included 26
pintail and 10 red breasted mergansers. Surprisingly no other wader species and
the only raptors I saw were single red kite and buzzard. A water rail was
calling on the edge of Covert coch bog.
A belated record from yesterday was a Cettis warbler in the
reedbed on the edge of the Leri at Aberleri.
Dick Squires