RSPB Conwy and the Great Orme.

 

We arrived just after 9am and were pleased to be able to walk around the reserve in sunshine and no sign of rain. Not as many birds on the reserve as I was hoping for. I ended up with 39 birds on my list, but no new birds for the trip. Very few swallows and sand martins about but we had excellent views of swifts flying over head and saw house martins collecting mud from the estuary. Only 2 waders, a single redshank and a single curlew on the estuary. We heard several warblers but they were not very visible.

High tide was not until 1715, just after the reserve closes so we had lunch and then drove to the Great Orme.

We walked around the perimeter of the farm and saw several butterflies, none of which stopped long enough for a picture. Ravens were busy feeding and 4 choughs flew over, On the limestone pavement we had good views of wheater, linnet, meadow pipit and a song thrush. We had a brief glimpse of a brown bird of prey been chased by crows, but we were not able to say for certain that it was a merlin.

77 birds so far, with just one more stop on the way home on Saturday at Gronant Beach to see the little terns.