Six people turned out for the March field trip yesterday and enjoyed a pleasant
but
chilly amble along the cycle path at Llanilar.
The list of birds recorded
was: blackbird, wood pigeon, robin, rook,
jackdaw, moorhen, blue tit, great
tit, mallard, wren, song thrush,
carrion crow, long-tailed tit, herring gull,
black headed gull, kite,
buzzard, treecreeper, pheasant, goldcrest,
chaffinch, collared dove,
chiffchaff, redwing, mistle thrush, house sparrow,
dunnock, siskin,
pied wagtail, magpie, coal tit, and nuthatch.
On
returning home I spotted a male wheatear on the common around Llyn
Oerfa so
some have obviously started to to leave the coast to come and
claim nest
sites in the hills. On llyn Oerfa itself were five goosander
(four female,
one male.)
Elaine Izett