A roving flock of  c.100 birds contained Blue, Great and Long tailed Tit – a few Nuthatch and Treecreeper – several Goldcrest and at least one Firecrest..

The three Curlew Sandpipers at Ogmore show large variation in colour from rusty to colourless – the more advanced juv/1st winter is quite frosty looking whilst the less advanced juveniles are warmly coloured – all three are in fresh plumage.

Cannot compete with Paul’s digiscoping at this distance!

Also a small 3-5 flock of what appeared to be peeps (Little Stints?) flew down river mid afternoon.

It’s that time of year when I begin to receive pictures from photographers for potential use in the EGRC Annual Bird Report. So I am looking for high quality, high resolution digital photographs of  birds taken in Eastern Glamorgan in 2013.

Priority will be given to birds that are rare or uncommon in the recording area where a photograph substantiates a submitted, accepted record. Secondly I shall be looking for uncommon species that have not been featured in recent bird reports – a quick review will determine which these are, and finally, for excellent photographs of the more common species in the recording area that have also not featured in recent reports.

For submissions under 5Mb please send by email to rgsmith@birdpix.freeserve.co.uk. For larger submissions please use the excellent (free) service provided by http://www.wetransfer.com sending to my email address. I can thoroughly recommend wetransfer. Failing that send me an email and I will, by return, send an address for you to mail a CD.