Porteynon & Oxwich

Purple Sand

Porteynon: 6 purple sandpiper (including the one above), 31 ringed plover, dunlin, redshank, sanderling, little egret, 13 turnstone and a snipe (unusually) on Sedger’s Bank, and 2 Med gulls with 164 black-headed and 56 common gulls on the beach. 2 red-throated divers flew west out of the bay. 8 shag.
Oxwich: 46 teal, 17 gadwall, 6 shoveler, 4 wigeon on freshwater pools. 439 common gull at Nicholaston Pill. No sign of Mandarin.
Eider (2) off Mumbles Pier (sub ad male and a female).

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