A weekend trip tp see Wales birds 24- 27/2/13 sightings

We stayed near Snowdon and sighings were:
House sightings (garden sightings)

• 1 tree creeper
• 1 nuthatch
• 1 jay
• 2 ravens flew over
• 10+ blue tits
• 2 blackbirds
• 2 robins
• 2 great tits
• 10+ house sparrows
• 4 canada geese flew over
• 1 buzzard flew over getting mobbed by jackdaws

Snowdons sightings

• 2 ravens
• 5 herring gulls in one of the lakes

Harlec Beach sightings

• 1 owl pellet discovered
• 1 barn owl flew almost into a persons face but we did not see it
• 2 meadow pipits
• 2 stonechats
• 5 house sparrows
• 1 robin
• 2 oystercatchers
• 1 SLAVONIAN GREBE out at sea. Very hard to spot but i possibly saw it where as other birders sighted it with their scopes. A first for me
• 1 great crested grebe

From Harlec to our house sightings

• 50+ red kites around a feeding station
• 30+ buzzards
• A few ravens
• 2 Golden eyes. A male and a female at Power Mountain.
• 2 Marsh tits. A first for me at CAT- Centre of Alternative Technology