Saturday, 11 August 2012

The seabird spectacular continues

Arrived early at the lifeboat station at Borth to find thousands of Manx Shearwaters and around 400 Gannets feeding very close inshore.
Also around 70 Sandwich Terns, fishing just off the beach, among which I picked out one each of Arctic and Common. Later, when I returned to the site, there were 13 Common Terns.
One of the reefs held a Wheatear.
A quick run up to Ynyslas turn car park next.  Very little activity at sea, but on the beach were 105 Sandwich Terns, 8 Ringed Plover, 3 Sanderling and 6 Turnstones, plus another Wheatear.
Tried Ynyslas, but a fresh and cool easterly  was blowing sand all across the area, making viewing conditions difficult.

Please excuse the quality of the photographs.