Friday, 10 July 2020

Common Sandpipers - The Teifi

A visit to the three areas favoured by feeding  Common Sandpipers found 31 this evening, no doubt more around the estuary. A Greenshank this evening was on the reserve and a Redshank was photograhed this morning - as were a minimum of 5 Kingfishers.
The reading of colour rings on Gulls will have to wait for the tide height to increase again, birds are roosting in distant locations, though I did pick up the 1st juvenile Med Gull of the season amongst c50 Meds, c50 Black-headed Gulls and 62 Curlew.

More on the colour-ring results in another post, but the recent 4 Med. Gulls were from a German, a Dutch and 2 Belgian colonies.

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