Thursday, 4 April 2019

Also at Ynys-hir yesterday

2 green sandpipers.  I saw one briefly in the morning from the A487 layby, but was able to confirm its identity later on the muddy inlet near Domen Las.

At Marian Mawr early afternoon - 100 sand martins, four Redshanks and a number of lapwings.  Sudden pandemonium alerted me to a goshawk above the pools. It was being chased away by a crow, which gave me a good size comparison.  Slightly bigger than the crow, it would probably have been a male, I think, although I saw a hint of pale brown in the plumage.  So perhaps not fully adult?

Also two blackcaps in the ivy near the railway bridge and a swallow over the pools near the car park.

Jerry Moore