This weekend sees volunteers from all over Britain walk their patch of local coastline and report in any bird casualties. Initially the survey was to monitor oiling of seabirds but thankfully that threat has receded now so our casualties were probably from natural causes: 3 auks starved due to recent sea conditions and 1 starved because its legs had been bitten off. A few years ago Red and I picked up several in the latter condition and I hadn't seen one since until today.
There were 18 grey plovers, similar number of redshank plus turnstones, ringed plover and a couple of dunlin along the Llanon-Llanrhysted shoreline plus larger numbers of curlew and oystercatchers. 9 rock pipits fed on the short grass by the caravans.