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Porth Dinllaen, Lleyn Peninsula
1 Surf Scoter in the harbour. Year list 106
1 Whimbrel on rocky islet Carreg Ddu. Year list 107
3 Great Crested Grebes Year list 108
3 Red-throated Divers
2 Goosanders
Porth Towyn
2 Purple Sandpipers just east of the Natural Arch. Year list109
167 Golden Plovers in the field next to the coast path near the Natural Arch, a regular wintering site. The flock also contained 19 Dunlins and another 3 Dunlins were in with a Starling flock in the same field. Year list 110
3 Grey Plovers Year list 111
2 Razorbills Year list 112
1 Goosander
9 Song Thrushes in a small field at Mynachdy, Rhos-y-llan
Tan-y-maes
1 Woodcock over the A487 at its highest point between Caernarfon and Britannia Bridge at 17:45
Ullswater, Lake District
AM a walk up the east side of Ullswater from Patterdale as far as Scalehow Wood, returning via Silver Crag
PM Patterdale to Angle Tarn, well above the snowline today
c150 Barnacle Geese with Canada Geese grazing the lawns of the Ullswater Hotel [the Inn on the Lake]. Not necessarily a feral flock: the Solway isn’t too far away and they did look kind of wild. Year list 105
2 Dippers on the lake shore, one singing, just north of Silver Bay
c110 Red Deer on Patterdale Common on fells either side of Rooking Gill
Leighton Moss
5 Otters 2 from Public Hide and 3 from Lower Hide
1 Glossy Ibis from the track to Moss House Farm
1 Green-winged Teal from Griesdale Hide
1 Smew redhead from Lilian’s Hide
1 Spotted Redshank on Allen Pool
1 Marsh Harrier from Public and Lower Hides
1 Peregrine Falcon over Island Mere at sunset
30 Little Egrets roosted at Island Mere
Year list 104
Ynys Hir
1 Lesser Canada Goose race minima with a Pink-footed Goose in a flock of Greater Canadas from Breakwater Hide. Year list 91
1 Goshawk over hillside above Domen Las Hide. Year list 92
1 Peregrine Falcon in front of Breakwater Hide. Year list 93
Little Egrets Year list 94
Shovelers Year list 95
2 Goosanders on river in front of Domen Las Hide
3 Little Grebes on river in front of Domen Las Hide
1 Crossbill over
Heskin Green
1 Woodcock
For some reason I kept thinking I was going to see a Woodcock today even though I had no intention of doing any birding and, sure enough, at 1pm a Woodcock flew across the road in front of the car. Weird. Year list 90
Going to watch M83 tonight at Manchester Ritz http://ilovem83.com/videos
7:00 doors
8:00 Porcelain Raft
9:00 M83
River Ribble
1 Kingfisher at Jumbles Rocks. Year list 87
Tree Sparrows on feeders by the Ribble Way just west of River Calder confluence. Year list 88
4 Goldeneye off Balderstone Hall. Year list 89
8 Goosanders
8 Little Grebes below Mitton Wood
3 Black Swans just west of Calder confluence
The afternoon was a much warmer, less strenuous affair: lunch at the Inn at Whitewell with log-fires and sunshine streaming through the windows followed by a drive through the Trough of Bowland on the way home
Today I visited a strange land of extinct volcanos and signposts which point in any direction except the right one
Porth Oer [Whistling Sands] Lleyn Peninsula
2 Choughs
1 Gannet west
1+ Kittiwake
3 Red-throated Divers
3 Swans distantly offshore flying towards Bardsey Island were likely to have been Whoopers but, like the many distant Auks, not specifically year-tickable
Aber Geirch
1 Stonechat
Year list 86
Shell Island
1 Merlin [f]
1 Greenshank
13 Red-breasted Mergansers
Afon Mawddach
2 Goosanders [pr] viewed from Precipice Walk, high above the river
Year list 76