This morning we headed down to Angle Bay, the weather remained gloomy but dry. At Kilpaison waterfowl numbers were quite good including large flocks of wigeon (1,000+), 12 pintail and 14 pale-breasted Brent geese feeding as the tide ebbed.
A few hundred dunlin, 40-50 ringed plovers and 3 bar-tailed godwits, were roosting on the shore alongside small numbers of other waders. Common gulls were fairly numerous - at least 112 were bathing or resting on the shore with other gulls including a couple of Med. gulls.
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| Part of a flock of c.250 Black-tailed Godwits feeding on the shore at the harbour end - none appeared to be ringed. |
At the harbour end the main waders there were black-tailed godwits - a flock of 250+ feeding on the shore plus a few bar-tailed godwits with them.
Curlew
black ring 24 in white numerals (above the tarsus on the right leg) and
orange ring left leg above the tarsus was roosting and then feeding on the shore before being spooked by a passing sparrowhawk. Presumably this is one of the birds ringed by Paddy, Mike and co?
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| The 2 was quite easy to see but the 4 was often hidden by feathers |
Late last Saturday afternoon we had a look at the Lys-y-fran reservoir gull roost. It was the first time we'd been up there for ages. At least
3,500 LBB gulls came to roost plus 1,500 or more black-headed gulls, a few hundred herring gulls, at least 5 adult yellow-legged gulls, at least a couple of Med. gulls, a small number of common gulls plus the adult
ring-billed gull. It was seen quite well briefly before the majority of LBB gulls arrived.
