Good weekend for Wheatears

(c) R.H.A. Taylor

Over the weekend there were very good numbers of Wheatears seen all over the county, with many of the ploughed fields in West Gower which Neil Edwards and myself looked at, having birds in them, the best being 12 at Tankeylake. A large proportion, possibly even most of these, were of the larger Greenland and Canadian race leucorhoa, which is a truly long distance migrant. The flight across the Atlantic is an incredible feat for a bird of this size to undertake each spring and autumn, especially given the conditions they must frequently encounter in the North Atlantic. Rob Taylor photographed a few of at least 15 birds present at Wernffrwd on Saturday morning.

(c) R.H.A. Taylor