Numerous Red-throated Diver - a couple in summer plumage 1 Eider - drake Numerous Common Scoter 5 Red-breasted Merganser c10 Great crested Grebe 1 Shag 2 Cormorant 5 Guillemot Also quite a few small passerines seen in ones and twos flying over the sea. I think Meadow Pipits but very distant to be certain.
Spent a couple of hours on the Promenade in the build up to high tide this morning (followed by a walk to More Madryn and then off to Conwy RSPB). Nothing unexpected but still enjoyable with plenty Common Scoters, Common Eider, Red-breasted Megansers and Great crested Grebes were by far the most numerous birds on the sea. A few kittiwakes were a nice year tick. Oystercatchers, Dunlin and Turnstones made up the majority of the waders.
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21-03-09 12 Red breasted mergansers 100 oystercatchers all the usual gulls several curlew and distant bar tailed godwit best of all 6 Slavonian grebe lifer for meone already in summer plumage 3 common scoter
one already in summer plumage