Marc Hughes
@marcbuzzard
Birder from North Wales. Patch the Great Orme and Conwy RSPB. Self find list and Welsh list are my passion. Love Spurn trips too ๐๐ Cymro ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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06-09-2010 18:41:50
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A walk through the dunes from Prestatyn to Gronant. Little Terns were in fine form. 2 singing Grasshopper Warblers, Whinchat + 250+ Sanderling in various plumages. Small Copper, Gatekeepers, Small Heaths + Broad-bodied Chasers. Also several Common Star-of-Bethlehem Gronant Little Terns
Amazing numbers of Green Long-horn moths in Trefiw oak woods, Snowdonia yesterday. Well over 100 on the wing. With a backdrop of Wood Warblers, Pied Flycatcher, Redstarts, Tree Pipit and Cuckoo, it was quite spectacular. Those horns! British Moths
A great bird race day with Levi Gravett Tom and Caroline. 129 species final team total - Nightjars, both Grouse, Wood Warbler, Cattle Egret, displaying Ruff, Greenshank, Puffins, Whinchat, Ring Ouzels, Grey-headed + Blue-headed Wagtails, Bittern, Little Owl and many moreโบ๏ธ๐
An enjoyable bird race walk around Cemlyn with Levi Gravett . Joined by the legend Stephen Culley - cracking male Grey-headed Wagtail, a superb male Blue-headed Wagtail and a female type Blue-headed. Also Little Owl, Arctic + Common Tern, Turnstone + Redshank. 100 is nearly up ๐
Great start to May 2024 Bird Race with Levi Gravett Several Ring Ouzel, Wheatear + Cuckoo singing at dawn in Nant Ffrancon. Boomong Bittern, Pochard, Teal + Wigeon Cors Ddyga. Male Redstart, Manxy, Puffins, Hooded Crow at South Stack. 2 Cattle Egret Gorad Flood Anglesey Bird News
What a start to the annual May bird race! 03:00 - Common Scoter, Ringed Plover, Grey Heron, Tawny Owl and this (certainly a May bird Race first!) โบ๏ธ๐ itโs going to be a good day with Levi Gravett
Happy International Dawn Chorus Day. Diwrnod Cor y Wig Hapus ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ - coffee, marmalade sandwiches, redstarts, tawny owl, cuckoo and a cacophony of blackbirds, thrushes and robins. rspb.org.uk/whats-happeninโฆ Natureโs Festival of amazing sound โบ๏ธ๐ ๐ต ๐ถ
A cracking morning at Ynyslas Ceredigion Birds - migrants inc. 7 Whinchat, 50+ Wheatears, 2 White Wagtail. Lots of waders inc. Wood Sandpiper, 50+ Whimbrel, 8 Black tailed+ 7 Bar tailed Godwits, 18 Turnstone. 8 Red throated Divers, 4 Common Scoter, Arctic and 4 Sandwich Tern โบ๏ธ๐
This fine male Whinchat, 5 wheatear, 8 Common Sand, 3 Dunlin, 3 Whimbrel and 4 Sandwich tern at RSPB Conwy Conwy rspb 6.30-7.15 this morning. Lots of singing warblers too. Great start to the day โบ๏ธ๐
Sunday highlights - Green Hairstreak at Llanymynech Rocks, 5 Common Sandpipers, 2 flocks Dunlin and Barn Owl on the overnight recorder over Penrhyn Bay and some shocking scenes at RSPB Conwy where Shelduck Testosterone was very evident! 100+ Shelduck present on the estuary.
A full dayโs birding with Natur Cymru and Angharad - Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 23 Redpoll on Orme. Osprey, 3 โboomingโ Bittern, 5 Marsh Harriers, 65+ White Wagtail at Cors Ddyga. 13 Whimbrel, Bar t. + 23 Black t. Godwits - Malltraeth. 48 Whimbrel at Llyn Traffwll. Anglesey Bird News