Ynys-hir

 Despite the rain we had a good selection of birds today: 20 greenshanks and singles of ruff, green sandpiper,  black-tailed godwit, great Egret, shoveler,  peregrine, water rail and osprey. 

Dave Anning 

Ynys-hir waders

 No sign of yesterday's Pectoral Sandpiper but the Wood Sandpiper, a Ruff,  two Green Sandpipers and 16 Greenshank remain. 

Dave Anning 

Pec Sand update

 The pec was last seen at about 2pm when it flew off with some other waders and it was not on the Ynys Feurig or Marian Mawr later, but we hope it might return on tomorrow's high tide. 

Dave Anning 

Pectoral Sandpiper

 Pectoral Sandpiper on Marian Mawr along with a ruff,  nine greenshanks, two black-tailed godwits and two pintails..  Reserve is now open for people to see it. 

Dave Anning 

Summers end

 At Llansantffraed first thing this morning; 84 Ringed Plovers, 5 Sandwich Terns, Whinchat and Willow Warbler. Yesterday, a short walk starting bang on the Ceredigion/Carms border down into Cwm Twrch(Carms) picked up 2 Kestrels and we heard Green Woodpeckers on three occasions. The woodpeckers might perhaps be connected to those sometimes recorded along the ridge between between Long Wood and Llanddewi Brefi?

More Hobbies

 At work today I was happily distracted from delivering the backlog of mail by the sound of a falcon overhead. Directly overhead were 3 Hobbies. Two were buzzing and pestering a couple of nonchalant Kites while the third hung back. I wondered if this behaviour suggested a pair with a young juvenile perhaps? This was at Henllan, not far from where I saw a single on 15/07.

Borth Ynyslas

 06-30 this morning the seemingly ongoing feeding frenzy off Borth and Ynyslas took place again..  we arrived and started observing 06-30 and we were a bit late.

The flock comprising various gull sp. Manx Shearwaters, Gannets and a sizeable contingent of Sandwich Terns amongst others tracked an obviously huge shoal  of fish across the bay, eventually moving out to  sea around 7-30.

Well worth the early start.

Kevin and Seri Crawley

Barnacle Geese

 There was a flock of 30 barnacle geese on Patch  beach, Teifi estuary,  at 4.30pm on Monday 18th August.

Trish Millson 

BLACK GUILLEMOT

   This morning while watching what became a really massive Manx Shearwater gathering off Borth, Jill found a juv. Black Guillemot, conveniently one of the closest birds and displaying all the necessary features. For comparison, a juv. Guillemot keeping close to its parent was present further offshore.

Black Guillemot

 A Black Guillemot was watched flying west past Cardigan Island on August 14th (Benj Bond)