AM Two red head Goosanders were seen entering Goodwick Beck on the high tide by the flagpoles!Waders included 3 Curlew, 2 Redshank, 1 Ringed Plover 11 Turnstones and circa 20 Oystercatchers. A strange gull slightly larger than the nearby BHG's but with a black tippedyellow bill and the remains of a black head was a bit of a poser.
Two extremely tame Snow Buntings trotted a three or four metres ahread of us, as we walked up the the outer breakwater. No purple Sandpipers but two Chough calling overhead flying towards the Caravan Site. across the bay.
PM Calm reasonably bright conditions found me at Dowrog around 15.30. Apart from a trio of Snipe whizzing about overhead there was little in the way of action until I spotted a Ringtail in the depths of the willow scrub. I lost it after no more than a fleeting glimpse and could not relocate it so it presumably had settled down to Roost. A few minutes later another (I think) came in low from the west, crossing the road and edging around the boundary before making its way into the willows scrub flitting in and out untill it too dissappeared in the scrub. I was then joined by Paddy Jenks and a friend who had seen a male Hen Harrier fly along the eastern edge of the moor towards the airfield. as we began to lose the light a cracking little Male Merlin shot across the moor from the west left to right, A few minutes later a female whizzed along from left to right across the front of the willows for a couple of hundred metres before vanishing into thin air, (probably having pounced on something) The light was fading fast so I decided to call it a day, leaving Paddy and friend to it!