It was so cold at Connah’s Quay this morning that I half expected the less hardy individuals amongst the assorted wildfowl and waders to be sporting snoods.A perishing north-westerly wind restricted viewing from the West Hide to either flank, so I spent an hour or so grilling the Ash Pool and the river channel.
Nothing out of the ordinary, although it was good to see the resident male Peregrine strafe the Teal and Wigeon.
The Bunded Pools held the normal small posse of Greenshanks and Spotted Redshanks, although there was no sign of a Goldeneye that had been reported earlier.
Mostyn Dock held a little more life, with a very large roost of approximately three thousand Oystercatchers on a nearby sand bank and a good roost of Redshank and Dunlin on the close shore.
A scan of a rocky outcrop produced a quintet of Turnstone – a new bird for my Flintshire year list. I just need a single now to nudge my way out of the nervous nineties…one hundred and one to go!
Until later.
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