Work Rained Off

Due to Martin Bevan being rained off today we decided to nip down to Llanelli for a few hours. Unusually we did not leave until 10.10am, must be getting old.

When we got to Llanelli Martin had to renew his membership so I wandered over to have a look at the feeders and was rewarded with my first year tick a lovely plumaged Brambling which done the decent thing and hung around for Martin to see.

Next was down to the British Steel hide where straight away we found a sleeping Spoonbill (no other kind Mr Bell) and Martin found a sleeping Spotted Redshank, year ticks for both of us. We then wandered over to the Welsh Water and Peter Scott hides but did not stay long has it was very quiet.

As we did not have much time we then drove over to Cilsan Bridge where Martin had a year tick in Whooper Swan (35 in total). The next port of call was Dryslwyn where we dipped the Tree Sparrows in atrocious weather but I managed Great Spotted Woodpecker for the year. From the car park we did find 4 Pink Footed Geese in amongst hundreds of geese another year tick for the both of us. Also thousands of Starlings feeding in the fields and Martin found two Stock Doves.