Foel Cwmcerwyn

Whilst everyone else in Pembs was enjoying excellent birds, I went to the tetrad which contains the highest land in the county, and which so far had only one species (kestrel) registered in the BTO winter atlas. After about half an hour, I began to realise why - there weren't any birds to register! I saw the kestrel again, and after several hours came to a small stand of mature sitka and larch in Pantmaenog where six crossbills gave fantastic views, and a woodcock came from underfoot. Apart from a few stonechats and meadow pipits the moorland and clearfell were devoid of birds.