Ynys-hir

Spent a very wet half hour at the Ynys Feurig hide yesterday morning but conditions too poor with heavy rain and dense mist.  The heavy rain had extended the area of open water and it was stacked with waders and wildfowl which included 440 teal, 140 wigeon and 8 shoveler and 600 lapwing.

In the afternoon I spent a superb hour at Marian Mawr with a female hen harrier, a kestrel, a peregrine and a hunting barn owl very close to the hide from 2.50 onwards, 2 goldeneye on the river and 60 teal on the pools.  On the walk back I had Cetti's warbler and 4 gadwall on the pools and reedbed below the visitor centre.

Dick Squires