Snowdonia camping
Well, its been over a month since I last posted! Jill and I have been to Bonaire,Ecuador and Galapagos for the last month. I have a huge amount of photos and video footage still to process, so I'll be adding reports from each stage of that trip gradually from now on.

Anyway, on arrival back from holiday, we decided to go camping in Snowdonia over easter.
Heres a link to "Silver birches" , the lovely little campsite where we stayed.
Marion and Ian (the owners) have added a picture of us (click here then scroll down) to their site too!.
The campsite is only a few miles up the valley from GLASLYN - the only breeding pair of Ospreys in Wales.

When we visited on 7/4/07 there was late staying whooper swan near the hide and the osprey pair that had just returned the week before, were showing well on the webcam.














Here's the full list from the long weekend. 40 species.
With the early/late migrants highlighted

Mistle thrush
Song thrush
Blackbird
Nuthatch
Treecreeper
GS woodpecker
Raven
Rook
Carrion crow
Jackdaw
Jay
Magpie
Wood pigeon
Goldcrest
Robin
Wren
Dunnock
House sparrow
Siskin (seemingly replacing greenfinches in the area)
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Chiff chaff (my first summer migrants)
Blue tit
Great tit
Coal tit
Long tailed tit
Peregrine falcon
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Osprey
Pheasant
Pied wagtail
Grey wagtail
Common gull
Herring gull
Mallard
Mute swan
Whooper swan (last of my winter migrants)
Willow warbler (many heard)
Tawny owl (several heard every night at the campsite)

Good numbers of Pipistrelle bats around the camp at dusk too

Not the most concerted effort from myself birding-wise, I was more interested in BBQing this time! Being Easter, the area was chocka with holiday-makers and kids, so Jill and I were happiest just to chill with a beer at the CHILD-FREE "Silver birches". "Child- free" is always a better phrase than "Adult" when it comes to camping, dont you think?

They're was a shocking amount of roadkill on the M56 , so much so that we started counting as a game :(
10 dead badgers
1 dead fox
5 dead hedgehogs
and about a million dead Pheasants!!!!!