A couple of really good tours this last few days. Bird highlight yesterday was a juvenile Little Gull off Cliad. Seven Bar-tailed Godwits flew in off the sea and there were good numbers of Sanderling, Ringed Plover and Turnstones. Bumblebees there included a Great Yellow and numerous Red-shanked and Moss Carders. Botanical highlights were a single Irish Ladies Tresses and still thousands of Grass of Parnassus in bloom. A superb hunting Hen Harrier brought the tour to a nice end as it harried a flock of 200+ Twite.
Highlights of today's tours were Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper amongst the throngs of Sanderling and Dunlin at Crossapol. Great views of Otter and Grey & Common Seals were had there and a female Hen Harrier hunted the Twite flocks at Breacacha. A superb Osprey slowly drifted south over the Roadside Lochs.
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