My cousin lives in the beautiful small seaside town of Tywyn, in Gwynedd, North Wales. On the 31st December 2012, I received an email from my cousin telling me that a Chough was frequenting her mother-in-law's garden in Tywyn. The Chough was colour ringed and she was able to send me the ringing details. The garden
January has started well at my local Patch – Staunton Harold Reservoir. Early morning on the 4th I found 4 adult Whooper Swans showing well from the dam car park and also an adult Yellow-legged Gull sat on one of the marker buoys. A good flog round the site this morning produced 2 Raven, 40
I "Kicked-Off" off the new year in typical fashion. A morning's session around my Local Patch, Staunton Harold Reservoir. My target was 50 species but I only made 48. I did manage to find a female Pintail amongst a large flock of Wigeon (Pintail is an uncommon species for my patch) and also one of the adult Yellow-legged
