Bored of the weather and bored of re-decorating I decided to spend an hour or so at Ynyslas to lighten my mood.
At
the tern posts I scanned towards the Leri and picked up three sandwich terns
(one juv), a couple of adult Med gulls and a few dunlin and ringed plovers.
Scanning further to the right I noticed a bird sitting down on the salt marsh
which had a short, stoutish bill which was mainly yellow with a black tip. I
walked further towards the Leri and scoped from the low dunes and soon found
that the bird was a stone curlew. I watched it for a while before (inevitably at
Ynyslas it seems) it was flushed by the only dog walkers on the beach and flew
off over the Leri till I lost it in the mist.
Pleased
as punch as it is a county tick for me but bitterly disappointed that it was
flushed before others could see it.
Russell Jones