Visit to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, Wales 30th May 2012

Visit to Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, Wales 30th May 2012

After our couple of days with the birding group we wanted to stay another day and go to Cemlyn Bay again and perhaps a few other places. It wasn’t to be quite that way in the end but we had a good start when we revisited Cemlyn Bay. There wasn’t really all that much new there from the 27th but we had longer views of everything and because there was just the two of us we could do what we wanted. As we arrived at the same car park again we saw the half dozen little Plovers on the small pond and a Grey Heron was also roosting there. When we got in position overlooking the Lagoon we could see even more Red-breasted Mergansers – a total of six of them on the main lagoon.

Again we scoured the Terns and Black-headed Gulls for anything unusual but how can you be disappointed even if you only see the Terns.. Again there were Dunlin and also Greylag and Canada Geese. Out by the rocks at the end of the bay we again saw Turnstones and a Cormorant. As we watched a mournful noise could be heard and this turned out to emanate from about 8 seals either lounging on some rocks or swimming about near them – just a few hundred yards from the coast ! As we walked along the coastal path we got lovely views of a Whitethroat singing from the top of a small bush and there were also Pied Wagtail, Jackdaw and even a Pheasant in the field. We spent quite a long time there and even although we had been there a couple of days before we were glad we had returned to this fantastic site.

Unfortunately we didn’t end up going much further as, on the road back from Anglesey, a white van ploughed into the back of our car when we had been forced by a van in front to make an emergency stop. With the back of the car trashed and a bit shaken up and with insurance companies to deal with we decided to call an early end to our extra day away and that was the end of our birding for this visit.

Bird Sightings :Cemlyn Bay