Sunfish, Sandpipers and Snakes
On the 1st of September the sightings of passage birds and sea wildlife picked up...
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| Looking for waders at dusk, 1st September |
Before Sept, two early Lapwings over Cemaes Head on the 26th Aug were a surprise, but not as surprising as another Thresher Shark off Cemaes Head on the 29th Aug seen by Len Walters.
Moving to September and on the 1st off Poppit Benj Bond found an adult Black Tern feeding above Bottlenose Dolphins and a few 100ms further out Leo Barber found and caught on video this Ocean Sunfish.
Ocean Sunfish
Also on the 1st a Great Egret was seen by Paul Taylor on the Reserve, the Egret now mobile around the estuary - still present on the 2nd.
The first juvenile Curlew Sandpiper of the season was picked up by Howard Thomas on the 1st with a variety of other more common waders, passage south now in full flow..
A Grass Snake was seen on the evening of the 29th August swimming in front of Kingfisher Hide, Teifi Marshes and Peter Dyer managed to take a phone video
Refugia for reptiles are provided around the reserve and enable the population to be studied. Here is part of the sloughed skin from a large Grass Snake.
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| Grass Snake skin |
Looking forward to what this latest weather system may deliver...