Porthcawl to Sker yesterday

There was a Chough between the green lifeguard cabins and Sker yesterday, before being flushed by walkers up towards Sker. A couple who were nearby managed to photograph it and show me the rings on its legs, confirming for me that the juvenile female Anglesey bird is still around. There were 45 Common Gull and at least 800 Golden Plover in Sker Farm fields though I feel there may have been more than this as two microlight aircraft flew low over and the flock splintered with quite a few heading off toward the beaches and rocks of Rest Bay. Worth checking out as who knows what may be in with them?! The coastline had small numbers of waders Oystercatcher (40), Turnstone (16), Redshank (1) and Curlew (26) and a Shelduck flew over, whereas the farm cattle feeding areas held several Blackbird, Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush.

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