Yesterday I had an early morning stroll at Patch at low tide and in glorious sunny weather. At one point about 40 barnacle geese flew overhead in the direction of Cardigan Island. In the shrubs beyond the caravans there were linnets, stonechats and a singing whitethroat together with a willow warbler. A single wheatear looked out across the bay from his perch on one of the large breakwater boulders. On such a glorious day the only downside was a dead chough by the pontoon on the river-side of the dunes.
,John Ramm