There was a cold northerly blowing this morning, and the hills of Snowdonia were snow-capped. Signs of spring offshore, however, as three Sandwich Terns passed and fairly distant feeding rafts of Manx Shearwaters totalling ca190 were moving north, accompanied by about 40 Kittiwakes.
Also heading north were three Gannets, four Common Scoter, two Fulmars and six Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
On the rocks, just five Ringed Plover and two Turnstones.
After an hour John turned up, well wrapped-up against the wintry conditions, but the passage had more or less petered out by then.