Bits and Pieces, mostly around Ynyslas

 Sat (4^th) a summer-plumaged red-throated diver north off the brick-house.

Sun (5^th) a juv arctic skua north off the brick-house, a male redstart at The Arch, a crossbill at Rhos Nantperfedd and 3 hobbies hunting over the ridge at Pen Lan-fawr near Cwmystwyth.

Today (7^th) 2000+ Manx shearwaters, 160 gannets, an adult arctic skua north off the brick-house early am. At the point Ynyslas at high-tide 360 sandwich terns, 210 ringed plover, 320 dunlin, 32 sanderling, 2 knot and a juv curlew sandpiper.

Russell Jones