An adult Gull-billed Tern was pretty much the first bird spotted (around 19:45hrs) when I took the dog for an amble at the bridge this evening. Chris Brewer, Neil Edwards and Sandra managed to get down and see it feeding with a scattered group of Black-headed Gulls before it eventually headed off to Morfa Baccas (Carms) where we left it on the sandflats at 20:20hrs.
There have now been four occurrences of Gull-billed Tern in the Burry Inlet, on each occasion birds have wandered into both vice-counties:
1987, April, Machynys (vc44) & Salthouse (vc41)
1996, July-Aug, Penclacwydd (vc44) & Crofty (vc41)
2012, June, Penclacwydd (vc44) & Loughor (vc41)
2016, May, Loughor (vc41) & Morfa Baccas (vc44)
The only other Glamorgan bird was the one at Penrice 1993. It's about time a Caspian put in another appearance!
4 comments:
Saw your Gull-billed Tern this evening Barry, it's a cracking bird and well worth getting soaked in the process. Great find!
Another Caspian you say! Yes please!!
Not swapping my Caspian with either of you even if I do still need Gull-billed for Glam...
Nice one Barry, still a good rarity find and fits the established pattern of occurrences in the south-west of Britain.
and now recorded in Eastern Glamorgan too...
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