6TH - 12TH JULY 2009

The 6th saw eleven Common Eider, an unseasonal Dark-bellied Brent Goose, as well as 800 Black-headed, 100 Common and two Mediterranean Gull and 100 Common Swift at Wernffrwd, North Gower. Nine Northern Gannet and three hundred Manx Shearwater passed Ogmore-by-Sea and a Little Egret was on Ogmore Estuary. Four Little Egret flew north over Porthcawl on the 10th and a Eurasian Hobby was in Bridgend on the 11th. On the 12th, twelve Common Sandpiper, twenty six Common Shelduck and a Mediterranean Gull were at Ogmore Estuary. Fifty Manx Shearwater and two Mediterranean Gulls were at Aberthaw Marsh.