Went to Bangor this weekend for a friend's birthday. Took the opportunity to pop out on Saturday afternoon to have a good walk around the area and see what was on offer bird-wise. Weather was lovely and had a nice lunch at the base of Mt. Snowdon.
Highlights were coal tit, pair of bullfinches, ravens, my first fieldfare of the winter, goldcrest, nuthatch (first of the year), one male and four female red-breasted mergansers, all feeding very confidingly close to the shore of Lake Padarn, and finally a fleeting peregrine falcon flew by. There was another large flock of c. 50 fieldfares towards the end of the walk.
There were a couple of redwing in the garden the following morning as I was nursing a relatively severe hangover!
Not a bad haul considering I hadn't seriously planned on anything bird-wise (though was hopeful enough to take my bins...!)
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