Star bird must be the Great Snipe seen at Cors Fochno
in the Glandwr area by the Bird Race team comprising Marc Hughes, Russell
Jones, Edward O’Connor and Arfon Williams. They also heard a booming Bittern from
there. To achieve an amazing 124 species that day (30th) and setting
a new record for Ceredigion, was all the more remarkable given that they did it
in late May.
Nearby at Ynyslas six Cattle Egrets and a Ring-billed
Gull were present (all month) and on the same field a Hooded Crow was found by
Ed (4th, 5th and 20th). A Hoopoe was briefly
at the Clettwr (3rd), seen and photographed by Annette Williamson.
Arfon found Cors Caron’s first ever Great White Egret (5th). Another
Great White continued its stay at the Dyfi estuary.
DYFI ESTUARY SIGHTINGS:
Two Yellow Wagtails and a Wood Sandpiper were at
Ynys-hir. At Ynyslas there was a Yellow Wagtail (6th) and offshore,
an Arctic Skua (7th and 8th) and two (10th and
27th), a Great Skua (14th), two Puffins (25th)
and a Black Tern (26th). Waders there included 25 Whimbrel (10th)
and two late ones (24th), 40 Bar-tailed Godwits, 36 Knot (6th),
12 Grey Plovers (7th), 40 Sanderling (10th), a Ruff (20th),
130 Ringed Plovers, a Curlew Sandpiper (27th) and 250 Dunlin (30th).
A Greenshank was at nearby Glandwr (7th).
OTHER SIGHTINGS:
At least one Hobby was at Cors Caron (from 9th),
six Whimbrel were at Llanrhystud (11th) and four Eiders were seen
off Aberporth (17th).