From John Whitehurst: After a pleasant morning with the many birds at the Gann the early afternoon at Marloes Mere gave spectacular views of huge flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plover. Hunkering down in the sedges the Lapwing were filling nearly every low island and two tight groups of Golden Plover crammed together on two of the larger ones. Every now and again they would take to the air, the only raptor noted being a Sparrowhawk which didn’t seem to be the culprit, and put on a wonderful twisting and turning display in glorious sunshine with the Golden Plover often soaring high above the more flappy Lapwing. In the end an estimate of possibly 2000 Lapwing and 1500 Golden Plover was made. Certainly an earlier thought of at least a 1000 of each was well short of the mark.
