Saturday, 26 November 2011

North Wales and Anglesey

Sarah and I took a short two-day birding break to North Wales and Anglesey on this, the windiest weekend of the year, when we saw the following birds:

Snow Bunting on the beach at Kimnel Bay

Kinmel Bay (in a sandstorm)
  • Snow Bunting
  • Dunlin (Still debating whether they were Sanderling)
  • Redshank
  • Oystercatcher
  • Cormorant
  • Common Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Greater Black-backed Gull
Conwy RSPB
  • Curlew
  • Little Egret
  • Teal
  • Coot
  • Moorhen
  • Mallard
  • Black-tailed Godwit
  • Blue Tit
  • Starlings
  • Mute Swan
  • Wild ponies
Menai Straits
  • Ringed Plover
  • Turnstone
  • Redshank
  • Mallard
  • Rock Pipit
  • Curlew
  • Carrion Crows
  • Starlings
  • Unidentified redhead duck
Malltraeth (from the Cob)
  • Pintail (32 both male and female)
Penrhos Nature Reserve, Holyhead
  • Brent Goose
  • Curlew
  • Greenshank
  • Ringed Plover
  • Unidentified white duck, possibly hybrid
Cemlyn Bay
  • Wigeon
  • Shelduck
  • Coot
  • Great Black-backed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Mallard
  • Oystercatcher
Cemaes Bay
  • Oystercatcher
More photos to follow ...

UPDATE: Unfortunately I have deleted the photos from this trip by accident - stupid me!

A Tusken Raider (one of the Sand People) from Star Wars

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