Still quiet at Ynyslas at high-tide yesterday but 51 golden plovers, 1 knot, 220 pintail and 3 grey plovers not too bad really.
At RSPB Ynyshir in the afternoon, it was lovely to see over 40
lapwings from the Ynys Feurig hide, some displaying, boding for good breeding
numbers there. The fields look excellent for breeding waders and for passage
stuff so well done the management. 15 white-fronted geese were on Penrhyngerwin
(fields west of the hide) though one looked paler and may be the Asiatic race.
Biggest surprise though was a ruff which I only spotted after an hour in the
hide. Scoping for ages at a distance I enjoyed a close displaying lapwing
through the bins and a foot away was a nice male ruff.
Russell Jones