List for year stands at 61 which in respect of hours put in is well good. Not much chasseing about.
Stood and watched BRAMBLING from left side of church over steel farm gate . Small stuff was flying on and off from old crop to bushes. Mostly LINNET but also REED BUNTING, GREENFINCH, CHAFFINCH and HOUSE SPARRROW. Also heard but did not see a mistle thrush so remains of list for now. A small flock of 3 GREY LAG over.
Met up with friend Chris a talk ensued and also got in conversation with a birder from Wales who lives literally a few hundred yards from where we stayed in 2013 in Gwachmiea. Small world.
GOLDENEYE on broad 3 female and a lovely adult male who was defiantly posing. MALLARD here and plenty of MEW GULL resting up on the water. Heard also a few bearded reedling but did not see, so again no record placed. Amazingly it has taken till now to find my first TEAL and this was a single bird. PIED WAGTAIL on beach flew in about 6 birds in all with a pair of MEADOW PIPIT. I also gained sight and watched at a good distance a small flock of 5 SNOW BUNTINGS. While on the beach I scanned the sea and came up with a COMMON BUZZARD flying low over the water heading south. Not an every day experience this but good to watch as it brought me onto a RED THROATED DIVER. The return walk eventually brought the red head SMEW which surprisingly was well at the back of the pools and while watching a young dark MARSH HARRIER came through. Overhead a small flock of about 30 LAPWING heading south could be viewed but they where very high.
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