After the cold weather and snow, many birds were pushed out to lowland
area. Plenty of golden plover on the beach along with oystercatcher, curlew,
dunlin, turnstone, GBB gull, herring gull, BH gull, cormorant, carrion crow and
rock pipit. The odd red kite was patrolling the beach and behind in the fields
were curlew (12), redwing and song thrush. One curlew was ringed and I got a
shot of it - C9 on a black ring, a silver ring and an orange ring. Tony Cross
provided this info on it:
This
bird was originally ringed at Aberaeron by Arfon Williams as a first-year male
on 21st September 2009. It was then retrapped by me at Llanrhystud on 10th March
2016 and had colour-rings added. It was next seen by Paul Leafe near
Caersws
on 25th March 2017 (64 kms inland) and then caught back at Llanrhystud on 8th
November 2017. Glad it has survived this weather, it should be thinking of
heading back inland again soon.
Aberaeron has also seen a lot of lapwing which is unusual - they have been
seen on Lampeter Road, on the hockey field and even on the Square Field in the
centre of town.
Shane Jones