Pencarnan update

At long last we have Pencarnan to ourselves, the last of the holiday makers are departing, washed away, blown away, and may it continue - the bad weather of course!

With our responsibilities to family and grandchildren over for another year, at dawn on Sat 29th we headed down to Porthselau beach to find 92 loafing Curlew, a good count for such a small strip of sand, and then, struggling into the teeth of a gale, we carried on to Point St John where the real action began. Highlight here was a single Bonxie that flew directly over our heads before continuing down Ramsey Sound. Out towards the Bishops and Clerks a conveyor belt of thousands of birds sheared southward, Manx, Gannets, Fulmars, Kitties, Gulls, 2 Artics (other Skuas too far out to ID) and 6 Common Scoter. Great stuff and good to be birding again. We see that ex tropical storm Danny is due to hit our shores on Wednesday - we'll be out there again, wrapped in plastic.