A pleasant morning birding starting at the brick-house at
Ynyslas where some 6-7,000 Manx shearwaters flew north along with 220 gannets,
128 sandwich terns, 35 Mediterranean gulls, 3 little terns and numerous
kittiwakes etc with many feeding at the mouth of the estuary. This flock
attracted 4 arctic skuas between 0730 and 0900 with all four visible together at
0810.
At Ynyslas itself later, there were a few waders but as the
tide rose numerous gulls, terns, gannets and shearwaters poured into the estuary
presumably feeding on small fish. I counted 354 sandwich terns flying in but
surprisingly no other tern species.
Later at RSPB Ynys-hir the two female garganey were on the
Marian Mawr pools with a great egret, a little ringed plover and two green
sandpipers. On the estuary was a black-tailed godwit, two common sandpipers and
6 ospreys together which was a bit of a surprise (presumably the Dyfi Osprey
pair and young and one other).
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