Carmarthenshire field trip 13th April

13 Club members had a successful trip to Kidwelly, Burry Port, Sandy Water Park and WWT Llanelli on Sat 13th. Despite a damp drizzly start and a v v high tide at Kidwelly concealing the best wader areas, we had a pretty successful day. The final tally was 66 species – highlights – Pink-footed Geese, R-b Mergansers, Whimbrel & Common Sand at Kidwelly; c.1000 Oycs and some interesting Rock Pipits at Burry plus a male Wheatear, AdW Little Gull at Sandy Water Park; Greenshank, 5 Ruff, Blackwits galore. and Russian White-fronted Goose at WWT. We suspected at least one of the Rock Pipits was of the Scandinavian subspecies Anthus petrosus littoralis – the jury is out on that one. Click here for the full list. John Wilson

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