20th and 21st February

A few more days up in North Wales (but it generally involved sitting in the van, reading a book while the gale force winds and heavy, driving rain raged about me!); the little bits of note comprised an adult male Peregrine along the shore at Llandulas on the 20th before a look along the shore between Caernarfon and Foryd Bay at low tide produced another adult male Peregrine perched on a sandbank in in middle of the straits, a Merlin, a single Dark-bellied Brent Goose with a total of 125 Pale-bellied Brent Geese scattered along the shore and a few waders including a Grey Plover, 7 Greenshank and 300+ Dunlin.   The next morning, bang on high tide birds at The Spinnies included 26 Goldeneye, 7 Red-breasted Mergansers, 6 Little Egrets, 37+ Great-crested Grebes, 450+ Dunlin, a good 12 Greenshank, 235+ Redshank and a Kittiwake.

Peregrine at Llandulas

Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Foryd Bay

Rock Pipit at Foryd Bay

(All these look like it was a lovely sunny day, they were all taken in the late afternoon on the 20th before the 21st was a complete write off!)

Fighting Great-crested Grebes in Foryd Bay