A variety of waders on a falling tide at Aberystwyth this morning, i.e, 3 Dunlin, 4 Redshank, 2 Turnstones and single Sanderling and Curlew.
Offshore, a good passage of Manx Shearwaters and Gannets heading north, as were 8 Common Scoter.
A Bottle-nosed Dolphin was close inshore but showed only a couple of times.
John then turned up and as we were discussing where to go next a party of 6 Gannets flew by, very close in and gleaming white in the sunshine.
Anyway, Borth was the preferred destination and we arrived to find Bob and his guests at the south end, looking out at the new reefs.
On the beach were 12 Sandwich Terns and 2 Mediterranean Gulls, while scanning the reefs we eventually found 10 Common Sandpipers, a Redshank and a Whimbrel, with aSanderling on the beach.
Bob and guests had headed up the hill and John and I were soon enjoying large numbers of manxies just beyond the reefs, with vast flocks further out and good numbers of feeding Gannets.
John then went north towards Ynyslas and I went south to Tanybwlch, meeting up with Bob's party there and enjoying rhe young Wheatears and a party of 17 Choughs, which first appeared over Allt Wen then flew overhead before ending up over the slopes of Pendinas.
Passage waders have been making the national news in the last couple of days, with early flocks of Black-tailed Godwits and Curlew at Llanelli, but the one that impressed me most was Andre's inland Whimbrel at Cors Caron.