We visited Aberporth and then Mwnt for the first time yesterday. Here's what we saw:
ABERPORTH pm
Chough. One pair often
obvious over beach and bay. Red Kite. 1 "Baywatch" bird checking out the many
washed up Jellyfish..Gannet, Manxies & Kittiwakes offshore. House Martin.
Good numbers nesting around the clifftop properties. Healthy numbers of clifftop
nesting Spuggies. A few Linnet & a nesting Greenfinch pair. Lots of stranded
Jellyfish spp.
MWNT evening
40+ Greylag Geese in V-shape
skein high over carpark heading towards New Quay and probably beyond. Heard well
before seen. Obviously on the move.
Sand Martin clifftop colony
with many active nest burrows. Birds coming and going all the time.
Pair of Buzzard. Light and
normal morph. Pale one had caught a Bunny, which it fed on for some time, before
handing it over in an "aerial snatchpass" to the normal morph. Which had been
waiting sometime for a look in.
Many House Martin around the
Sand Martin colony and Swallows prospecting the toilet block (even entering the
Ladies rest room!)
Pair Stonechat. Fledging
Wrens. Peregrine upsetting the Herring Gull colony.
2 Skylark on road back to
Aberporth.
Phil Baber & Pam Buckle