Sunday, 10 April 2011

Ring Ouzel @ Marloes Mere

A trip down south this morning with Paul G showed that there were less migrants on the south coast (Bosherston to West Angle) than further north. Highlights included 2 Grasshopper Warblers reeling at St. Govan's Head, 14 Wheatears in a field at West Angle (including a male of the Greenland form), and 7 Dunlin & 3 Ringed Plover in Angle Bay/Harbour along with a Sandwich Tern (earlier there were 6 of the latter feeding off Freshwater West). A circuit of Marloes Mere this evening was more productive, with a lovely male Ring Ouzel at Marloes Mere, frequenting the hedgerow on the N side of the partially stony/bare field c.300m west of the Britton Hide.