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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3696330" data-attributes="member: 7131">March 26thOff out early this morning, and up to Clocaenog for Great Grey Shrike. The bird showed well, in a beautiful landscape (so long as you kept your back to the radio mast and ignored the distant wind turbines) and glorious weather. No Goshawks unfortunately, but Crossbills on tap, including one with clear faint wing bars, one of those things I'd known about but never actually seen myself.From here we headed north to try for Surf Scoter at Colwyn Bay, but even though the sea was glass flat we didn't manage to pick any out of the several thousand very distant Common Scoter, and had to settle for year tick Red-throated Diver and Guillemot. Then on to Llanddulas for Glaucous Gull. Not a year tick, but too nice a bird to ignore while we were in the area, and we year ticked Shag to boot and spent time playing the age old game of throwing sticks into a river and commenting on their progress down stream. We then got wind of an Iceland Gull on the Homebase roof in Mold, pretty much on our route home, but for the hour and a half we gave it before heading home it was absent, although there did seem to be a slow turnover of Gulls  on the roof while we were there. Nice to bump into a couple of other local birders there, including an old friend from way back.A week off looms, need to start getting my motivation back (been a bit lacking of late), and today certainly helped.</blockquote>

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