Great birding again this morning from Ynys-hir’s Ynys Feurig
hide.
The morning began with good close views of a male goshawk
soaring directly over the hide and then, in bright sunshine, a female hen
harrier came in from across the saltings. 7 grey plover and a black tailed
godwit, 250 dunlin feeding on the estuary. 3 red kites over the grazing marsh.
The main flooded area was frozen hard with only a few lapwing and curlew on the
grassland and a few duck trying to land, eg 30 teal and a single shoveler.
On the walk down there were 4 mute swans, 3 red legged
partridge on Ynys Edwin bog, and a calling lesser spotted woodpecker directly
behind the hotel.
Dick Squires