Sunday 26 February 2017

Pillbox and Ynys-hir

Pillbox at high tide this morning produced: Little Egret - 7, Shelduck - 143, Curlew - 64, Pintail - 127, Wigeon - 520 (a reduction from numbers back in Jan), Grey Plover - 53, Bar-tailed Godwit - 13, Oystercatcher - 385, Dunlin - 300, Redshank - 35, Goosander - 1, Great Crested Grebe - 3.

The Dyfi estuary 1st w. Glaucous was behaving very much like a Glaucous today at on the dyfi at Ynys-hir as it bullied a group of Great Black-backed Gulls off a carcass floating down the river and then proceeded to peck away at the animal uncontested. A peregrine was sat on the saltings and 3 Green Sandpipers and a Common Sandpiper were viewed from the domen-las hide.

Edward O'Connor