4 purple sandpipers and 10 med gulls, including yellow 2160 from Norfolk, on the rocks at Porthcawl this morning.

I have seen them there once before.

Newton Bay yesterday. 2 golden plovers. Only 4 miles away Sker has 500+. A shag showed well.

A quiet morning doing my WeBS at Pitcot Pond St Brides Major this morning was brightened by my first ever stonechat at the site.

The Green Sandpiper showed well at WWT Llanelli Boardwalk Hide this afternoon.

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My favourite seawatch site up there was Rua Reidh lighthouse

I was a bit late to the sabines experience in Port Talbot but was rewarded by the best birding for me in a long while.

A contender for GBC annual report Rhos. Cracking photo

3 spotted flycatchers at Southerndown this morning found by Dave Ripley.

A pleasant 1/2 hour with med gulls on Porthcawl Seafront this afternoon.

I got my annual puffin fix yesterday. I am too crocked for Skomer steps so I did an 1 1/2 cruise from Martins Haven. Lovely and cool on the water.

“If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”

This principle should run through journalism like the words in a stick of rock. Yet somehow, day after day, it seems to evade the BBC's finest minds.

Last week in Dorset. Distant WTE, common tern, sandwich tern with sand eel for juvie and a corn bunting

Brilliant cruise. The birds turned up on cue and the explanatory chat was interesting. We did not get soaked or frozen either!

Black tailed godwits, knot and ruff at WWT Llanelli yesterday

Enjoyable morning in Cowbridge Gallary. Photos and paintings by Paul Dunn from Glamorgan Heritage Coast. Landscapes butterflies and reptiles plus auroras

I was sitting on boardwalk this morning and cuckoo called then flew over me.

Black redstart in my Bridgend garden

Porthcawl Seafront at high tide this morning.