Morfa Bychan and Yntslas

 Morfa Bychan  7th.

Highlight was a Velvet Scoter flying south with 4 Common Scoter fairly close inshore,  a further group of 4 Common Scoter also south.

 8th.  Chough 19, Oystercatcher 28, Curlew 7 roosting. 

9th.  Goosander,  Gannet 11, a few asks, Redstart, Tawny Owl, Ro9k 200.

Yynyslas 10th.

Curlew Sand, 4 juvs l, Little Stint 1 juv, Knot 7, Wandering 30+, Dunlin and Ringed Plover probably a couple of hundred each,  70+ Oystercatchers, single Whimbrel,  Greenshank, Turnstone (yellow ringed), 10+ Curlew,  a few Sandwich Terns and around a dozen Pintail .

Nice to meet Arfon 

.Pete Hackett

Chough and Fulmar

 8am this morning I  had a low level flypast  of 2 Chough heading north at the brickhouse  Ynyslas.

Further along the beach was a Fulmar resting amongst the big pebbles on the shoreline  When I got close it fluttered out onto the water.  Lots of feathers missing on its wings.  Not sure if it was ill or just going through moult.

  Lots of small waders on the headland .

David Williams 

Osprey - Teifi Estuary

 A couple of hours after John's visit to Patch, an Osprey was fishing just off the caravans. A photo showed that it was the Osprey ringed in Germany that Tommy Evans reported on the Teifi Marshes a few weeks ago on the 17th August. It has also been seen on the Nevern Estuary. Ringing details are still awaited. 

Last night at dusk, there were large numbers of corvids on the sandbanks typical for this time of year including at least 950 Jackdaws. 138 Curlew left the estuary to roost. 

Patch update

 Before a very sharp downpour drove me home I visited Patch at high tide this morning. On the spit facing Poppit there were 17 dunlins,  13 ringed plovers, 3 wheatears  and a couple of rock Pipits.   The great white Egret still makes occasional forays but not seen for a few days. 

John Ramm 

Swift

 I was surprised to see  a single adult Swift along the beach between Ynyslas and Borth this morning.   The bird  lew to wards Cors Fochno.   Lots of Swallowsaslong the tunes.

 P.S. Went to Cors  Fochno last night with a newly acquired thermal imager hoping to see a late Nightjar.  No luck unfortunately but the Tawny Owl was quite vocal.

David Williams 

Llanrhystud

 Fairly quiet visit to Llanrhystud today.......

Peregrine put up a flock of c65 Linnet........

A single late Swift hawking insects with a group of Swallows north of the lime kilns......

Single Knot on beach below caravan site......

Single Little Egret flying south just offshore........

Bit blowy, but at least it stayed dry....

Nigel Starnes 

Common Scoters

 My first Common Scoter flock of the autumn (ca18, all males except for 1 female and one imm.  First time I can recall having House Martins and scoters in the same binocular view here(Aberporth).

Dave Tudor

Aberporth Hobby

 Yesterday about 13.00 I.was looking out over Aberporth Bay at some exciting storms out at sea when I spotted a Hobby flying south across the bay. I presume it was attracted to the  large numbers of house Martins over the village.

We had a pair of Kestrels fledge 4 young from the Cliffs here this year  - this was cleanly not one of them.   It disappeared south towards the MOD.  This was the second one ive seen in the area following one several miles inland 2 years ago.

David Tudor

Hobby

 A pair enjoying the sun, chasing and playing above the garden in Llangeitho yesterday. 

Martin Perry 

Wryneck at Aberaeron

 There was a Wryneck  yesterday afternoon  (at 17.45)  in bushes at the back of Aberaeron north beach where there is a small gate that leads to the rugby field.

Arfon Williams