Saturday 23 September 2017

Today's field trip

This morning eight of us enjoyed a walk along the coast from the beach car park at Llanrhystud to beyond the lime kilns and back.
Aline lead the walk and impressed me even before we started by pointing out the bat droppings on my car roof.
Nothing unusual seen, but plenty of Mediterranean Gulls of all ages, lots of Linnets and good numbers of Pied/White Wagtails and Rock Pipits and still a few Wheatears around. Red picked out a Bar-tailed Godwit from a flock of Curlews and Aline had a brief view of a Kingfisher.

Complete bird list.
House Sparrow, Black-headed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Herring Gull, Jackdaw, Pied/White Wagtail, Oystercatcher, Sandwich Tern, Carrion Crow, Rock Pipit, Cormorant, Red-throated Diver, Gannet, Wheatear, Meadow Pipit, Dunlin, Woodpigeon, Blue Tit, Red Kite, Robin, Long-tailed Tit (heard), Curlew, Kingfisher, Skylark, Turnstone, Redshank, Buzzard, Stonechat, Grey Heron, Golden Plover (probable).