birds in the north east

Whilst looking for nesting kites today, came across a large flock (3 or 4,000) of loafing Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls between Clunderwen and Narberth. They seem to quite often gather here during stormy weather just resting in a field. In amongst them was an adult Iceland gull but no other gull species. At Tegryn, there was a flock of 950 Golden Plover most showing plenty of black on the belly, and when they were sunlit against a dark cloud background they were truely stunning to watch. There was'nt a great deal of Kite activity in the air though there were 16 just sat in a field at Hebron. A female Kestrel was near one of the nestboxes at Mynachlog Ddu and a few days ago there was a pair at Ty Rhyg one of which was sat in a tree with a nestbox. Not surprisingly there were no signs of the recent flurry of early summer migrants today, the bird seeming most at home being the Iceland Gull.