Previous Total
2013: 172
Having enjoyed completing last year's list it's time to start all over. As per usual I'll include any mammals, decent places to eat/ stay or just some things that are of interest to me.
Last night I earned sufficient brownie points to get a whole days birding today by babysitting the children and nephew whilst OH went out.
It was a wise decision to take Sarah's car today as some of the standing water was so deep it was coming up over the bonnet. I fear my car would have drowned. Before it was light I headed down to Kidwely Quay before going to Burryport Harbour and then onto Penclacwydd. From Penclacwydd I headed home for a quick homemade Scotch Egg before going to The Beacons.
Frankly, the weather has been horrendous all day today. I know there have been various threads about hide etiquette but by the time I reached the British Steel Hide I wanted to take my pants off to wring them out:eek!: I'm pretty this would breach the rules of etiquette (even in Llanelli :-O) so I refrained.
The Carmarthenshire sites and the back garden gave:
1. Blackbird
2. Song Thrush
3. Redwing
4. Black Headed gull
5. Herring Gull
6. Common Buzzard
7. Sparrow hawk
8. Rock Pipit
9. Brent Goose
10. Mallard
11. Wigeon
12. Gadwall
13. Common Teal
14. Northern Shoveller
15. Pochard
16. Grey Heron
17. Little Egret
18. Greenfinch
19. Chaffinch
20. Goldfinch
21. Robin
22. Dabchicks
23. Dunnock
24. House Sparrow
25. Great Tit
26. Coal Tit
27. Blue Tit
28. Wood Pigeon
29. Collared Dove
30. Goldeneye ( at Penclacwydd and Usk Resevoir)
31. Curlew
32. Redshank
33. Lapwing
34. Red Breasted Mergansers
35. Coot
36. Moorhen
37. Jay
38. Rook
39. Carrion Crow
40. Magpie
41. Jackdaw
42. Oystercatcher
43. Nuthatch
44. Mute Swan
45. Cormorant
46. Wren
47. Tufted Duck
48. Shelduck
49. Starling
50. Black Tailed Godwit
51. Greylag Goose
52. Pied Wagtail
The weather turned steadily worse on the Beacons:eek!: but a stop at Llwyn- Onn Reservoir gave:
53. Great Northern Diver. ( This had been reported at www.glamorganbirds.wordpress.com)
The GND was my bird of the day. Although my total was up 13 on last year the weather was against me all day. River levels were very high so where I expected to see Grey Wagtails and Dippers there were none.
Car of the day was a metallic brown M5. Sounds awful but it looked gorgeous.
This year we'll be in Speyside for two weeks (end of May/ beginning of June) so I'm hoping to add some Scottish specialities then. With a bit of luck, Handa maybe on the cards as well.
Pob Hwyl to everyone with their Birding year lists.
Rich
2013: 172
Having enjoyed completing last year's list it's time to start all over. As per usual I'll include any mammals, decent places to eat/ stay or just some things that are of interest to me.
Last night I earned sufficient brownie points to get a whole days birding today by babysitting the children and nephew whilst OH went out.
It was a wise decision to take Sarah's car today as some of the standing water was so deep it was coming up over the bonnet. I fear my car would have drowned. Before it was light I headed down to Kidwely Quay before going to Burryport Harbour and then onto Penclacwydd. From Penclacwydd I headed home for a quick homemade Scotch Egg before going to The Beacons.
Frankly, the weather has been horrendous all day today. I know there have been various threads about hide etiquette but by the time I reached the British Steel Hide I wanted to take my pants off to wring them out:eek!: I'm pretty this would breach the rules of etiquette (even in Llanelli :-O) so I refrained.
The Carmarthenshire sites and the back garden gave:
1. Blackbird
2. Song Thrush
3. Redwing
4. Black Headed gull
5. Herring Gull
6. Common Buzzard
7. Sparrow hawk
8. Rock Pipit
9. Brent Goose
10. Mallard
11. Wigeon
12. Gadwall
13. Common Teal
14. Northern Shoveller
15. Pochard
16. Grey Heron
17. Little Egret
18. Greenfinch
19. Chaffinch
20. Goldfinch
21. Robin
22. Dabchicks
23. Dunnock
24. House Sparrow
25. Great Tit
26. Coal Tit
27. Blue Tit
28. Wood Pigeon
29. Collared Dove
30. Goldeneye ( at Penclacwydd and Usk Resevoir)
31. Curlew
32. Redshank
33. Lapwing
34. Red Breasted Mergansers
35. Coot
36. Moorhen
37. Jay
38. Rook
39. Carrion Crow
40. Magpie
41. Jackdaw
42. Oystercatcher
43. Nuthatch
44. Mute Swan
45. Cormorant
46. Wren
47. Tufted Duck
48. Shelduck
49. Starling
50. Black Tailed Godwit
51. Greylag Goose
52. Pied Wagtail
The weather turned steadily worse on the Beacons:eek!: but a stop at Llwyn- Onn Reservoir gave:
53. Great Northern Diver. ( This had been reported at www.glamorganbirds.wordpress.com)
The GND was my bird of the day. Although my total was up 13 on last year the weather was against me all day. River levels were very high so where I expected to see Grey Wagtails and Dippers there were none.
Car of the day was a metallic brown M5. Sounds awful but it looked gorgeous.
This year we'll be in Speyside for two weeks (end of May/ beginning of June) so I'm hoping to add some Scottish specialities then. With a bit of luck, Handa maybe on the cards as well.
Pob Hwyl to everyone with their Birding year lists.
Rich
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