Saturday 20 October 2012

It must be winter...

There again,  a couple of swallows off Rosslare yesterday on our Sea Trust Stena Europe Survey, were stragglers from the summer we never had I suppose. Half a dozen winter plumage Tysties were in Rosslare harbour this morning along with an adult Med Gull. A couple of Divers one Diver Sp but probably RTD and another BTD were more signs of winter. We almost ran over a cracking adult Pom which none of us saw untill it flew up off our bow, another was also sat on the briny but out of camera shot . These were about twenty miles of Strumble so Welsh Birds ( Rich Stonier or Rich Davies would probably have copped them from Strumble! )  Luckily this Snow bunting on the Fishguard Harbour outer breakwater was much more confiding!