03 Saturday Feb 2024
Like a bird giant, a Curlew strides past this small grouping of Ringed plovers and Dunlins.
At first glance, I thought there were only a couple of the smaller birds snoozing at the water’s edge but, as the tide was coming in, their slumbers kept being interrupted by waves splashing over them, so every few minutes they had to shuffle a bit further up the beach. And when that happened, more little heads would pop up from where they’d been tucked down amongst the rocks.
17 Monday Jul 2017
Tags
birding, birdwatching, British birds, Buzzard, Common Gull, Glamorgan Bird Club, Goldcliff lagoons, Little egret, Newport Wetlands, waders
I thoroughly enjoyed my first visit to Goldcliff lagoons and Newport Wetlands with my Glamorgan Bird Club buddies this week. As their names suggest, these sites are perfectly suited to water birds and waders so in the two photos below the birds include Black-tailed godwits, Dunlins, Ringed and Little ringed plovers, Black-headed and Herring gulls, Oystercatchers and Turnstones, Lapwings and Shelducks.
Apparently, 67 species were seen (or heard) though my personal list only totalled 44 – this is because the birds are mostly quite distant at these sites, and I don’t have binoculars, and I can only see so far with the 300mm lens on my camera, so some birds just elude my eyes.
I did, however, manage to grab a blurry shot of a water vole that a fellow birder spotted, and saw some lovely butterflies and moths, and my sightings did include my first ever Knot and Common gull, so I was happy.
earthstar 
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