A gorgeous spring evening and the chance to enjoy a flock of Ring Ouzel in my own backyard was more than enough to lure me away from listening to the North London Derby between the Chokers and the Flatterers.
It was good to pick up some tasty news from the North Wales Birding Website for a change, following its recent clogging-up with drivel, rancour and shameless plugging.
Many regular posters seem to have chucked the towel in and migrated to: http://webirdnorthwales.blogspot.com/
Perhaps NWBF would benefit from some stricter editing, but if and when I run a site that generates as many hits, I may be in a better position to pass comment!
Anyway, back to the birds. Suffice to say, the Ring Ouzels weren’t as hard to locate as the Spurn Savi’s Warbler, especially after a chap from Wrexham had done the hard work and found a couple before I rocked-up with the ‘arl fella.
After five minutes or so admiring the birds, a few more were located in some gorse further down the track and closer scrutiny of the surrounding hillside revealed there to be quite a few more, plus a handful of Wheatears.
Apparently this area has been a traditional stop-off for Ring Ouzels in the past. Perhaps because their numbers have become fewer - and also because there are fewer birders in Clwyd than Christians in the Taliban - there simply has been nobody looking.
What a joy to have such great birds so close to home – I just need to find the Hawfinches in Y Ddol Uchaf now...
Until later.
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