Thursday 15 August 2019

Ynyslas high tide

I was intending to have a seawatch this morning but decided to check the wader roost at Ynyslas instead, gambling that the waders would gather in the estuary  rather than at the point due to the strong onshore wind.
An interesting collection as follows.  Dunlin and R.P. numbers approximate.

Ringed Plover  340
Knot    8
Dunlin     580
Black-tailed Godwit   1
Whimbrel    2
Curlew    27
Redshank    6
Turnstone    21

This was the most Turnstones I've ever seen in the Dyfi estuary.
Other odds and ends were five Little Egrets, four Mute Swans and 25 Sandwich Terns.