c. 40 dunlin were feeding alongside 8 sanderlings and a couple of turnstones still in summer plumage on piles of mainly red seaweed accumulating on the incoming tide.
There were at least 3 Med Gulls present (an adult and two juveniles) loosely associating with a small number of black-headed gulls. One of the b-h gulls had a white colour-ring with a black inscription on its right leg. Unfortunately it was much too far away for the inscription to be read through binoculars (should have taken a telescope!). Three common sandpipers were also feeding on the beach nearby.
Young choughs are are beginning to disperse along the Angle peninsula and elsewhere. Up in North Pembs Alastair and Jill Proud observed a flock of c. 30-40 (a mixture adults and young) on 25th July. They were mainly feeding in
the rough fields south of Pwll Deri. It will be interesting to see where other dispersing choughs occur during the coming weeks, and how many attend various known late summer roost-sites.
