happy monday

A brief visit to Aberystwyth on Monday to meet Steffi for lunch happily coincided with the appearance of an obliging curlew sandpiper (not as easy to see on the photo as it was through the scope) at Tanybwlch in a flooded field. Good clear views of this handsome wader made our day, at one point posing next to an equally obliging med gull.

Last night a calling tawny owl in trees next to the house kept me entertained during the televised rain washed debacle of the England/Poland non-game, much more fun than listening to the pundits describing different ways of clearing a waterlogged pitch for 2 hours.......

An early start at Ynys-hir for the high tide didnt really produce the goods, but good numbers of barnacle geese, r b mergs, goosander, pintail, little grebe, g c grebe, snipe, curlew, teal, redshank, wigeon and oystercatchers kept us busy.