A day out birding with old friend Ian Smith from way back in my Cardiff birding days. At the Gann mid morning with the tide well up there were 19 Dunlin, 15 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone, 10+ Rock Pipit and a lone Wheatear on the beach. On the pools 10 Little Egret, 2 Greenshank, 4 Redshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Kingfisher, 3 Little Grebe.
Dale Airfield late morning was very dry with no puddles at all on the runways and very quiet with just a couple of Wheatears 2 Stonechats and a few Meadow Pipits.
The Deer Park was similarly quiet though 10 Chough were nice as were several Grey Seal Pups on the beaches. Off Wooltack Point 1 Guillemot, 25+ Gannets and a dozen or so Porpoise.
Another look at the Gann mid afternoon produced 4 colour ringed GBB Gulls 3 of which Ian managed to read with the scope vibrating in the strengthening wind, white lettering on red ring, right leg - 1st Year W 224, Adult W 009, 2nd/3rd Year W 143. Also a colour ringed Oystercatcher - left orange over metal ring, right pale orange, black lettering A2. On the dropping tide there were c.90 Curlew, 35 Oystercatcher, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits.