Visit to The Spinnies, Aberogwen : 19th July 2013

Visit to The Spinnies, Aberogwen : 19th July 2013

We visited South Stack, the Fish Harbour at Holyhead and Cemlyn Bay yesterday and we were wending our way back to Manchester slowly so we decided to take the Tal-y-Bont turning and drop in for a quick walk along the beach at the Spinnies Reserve. I had been there on a birding group visit about five weeks previously when there had been huge numbers of Oystercatchers and Curlew and a smattering of Terns. There weren’t so may this time and no Terns at all but it was still full of birds and well worth a visit – as usual.The ride was a fair way out but the usual large numbers of Mute Swans were still roosting in the little rivulets leading down to the water line. There were also several Cormorants and good numbers of Curlew and large numbers of Oystercatchers. A little further out we could just make out a small flock of about 40 Goosander but we had to use the scope to see them. There were numbers of Black-tailed Godwits and the Little Egrets were, if anything, more plentiful than previously; I counted 24 of them but there were probably a lot more. There was a small flock of Shelduck and a Grey Hron and a pair of Great Crested Grebes.

We did drop in at the hide but there was very little around and it had been the same previously – again parhaps a little late in the year for the woodland birds. Be that as it may, we had the usual reliably good sightings here and we were glad we had stopped over.

Bird Sightings : The Spinnies Aberogwen