ANGLESEY PART 2

We stayed at Llanfair PG as the locals call it, but if you want to say the full title please be my guest.

It was a good base from which to explore the Island and neighbouring Towns. 

The Island has many a good birdwatching site with a couple of RSPB reserves. We only visited South Stack but sadly the huge sea bird colonies have gone back out to sea where they'll spend the winter.

South Stack

The surrounding cliffs had some Oystercatcher, Rock Pipit, Rock Dove and a hovering Kestrel. The Choughs were there but trying to photograph them was a different matter.

Rock pipit

 

Rock dove

female kestrel

Just down the road from south stack was a beautiful little beach and a toilet block which we were both glad of.

Anglesey seemed to be full of these little coves and beaches.

We found a few of these and also some nice estuaries, -  here is some of the birds that inhabited them.

common (mew) gull

cormorant

curlew 

great black backed gull

little egret

oystercatcher

I was pleasantly surprised to see a small group of Red breasted merganser and on the same part of the estuary were a few male "eclipse" wigeon.

red breasted merganser

male wigeon in eclipse plumage

There's also a colony of Sandwich terns at Cemlyn bay it boasts the largest nesting population of sandwich terns in the UK. I managed to grab this image as it drifted by whilst we were out walking.

sandwich tern

That's about it for the bird images I did see a lot more - stonechat, wheatear, swallows, herons, ringed plover as well as the choughs.

I did photograph one special iconic species of Anglesey and I'll put that in my next post.