Thursday 2nd June
Two Kingfishers flying downstream under Pont Llanio were the first I've recorded on this survey (have been quite surprised about this) and I note that the last sighting was in 2013 by a previous surveyor. That said, the local farmer sees them on occasion so obviously about.
Mute Swans
with two cygnets, a Canada Geese with two goslings. No Willow Tit heard this
year and no Sandmartins again this year. But a Spotted Flycatcher was my first
for the transect.
To add to Ian
Morris's Cwm Doethie sightings the next day (my 2/6 visit was shorter and I
didn't get as far as hostel turnoff)
No
Yellowhammer (or on a previous visit in mid-April); my last was a pair in 2017
just up the track from the hostel towards Soar y Mynydd.
Spotted
Flycatcher 1
Stonechats -
at least 10 including young ones.
Wheatear 3
Whinchats 5
singing - I was surprised how comparatively few there were this year (cf Ian
M's total of 13, however).
Ian
Harrison