And more flying beasties

Acouple of butterflies seen flying round the Great Orme recently, dark green fritilliary and a ringlet. There was a small colony of 10+ ringlets and it the first time I'd seen them on the Orme.

More flying beasties.

Silver Studded Blue.

Other things that fly

Other recent non-bird flying creature highlights this month have included Silver studded Blue butterflys on the wing at South Stack, Hummingbird hawkmoths at Cemaes and Cemlyn and Four spotted chasers and Keeled Skimmer dragonflies at Llyn Bodgynedd in the Gwydyr forest.

Meds at Penrhos Car Park Beddmanarch Bay

This time of year is good for Med gulls at Penrhos CP. They often come to bread or just rest on the shore quite close, often enabling you to get close enough for photos. A few weeks back earlier in July I had these three birds togeather, a juv, 1st summer and second summer birds. The first summer bird seemed to have quite an extensive hood but then again I'm only used to seeing 1st summer birds at Cemlyn usually earlier on in the season. The second summer bird seems to be hanging around and last week I saw some guy feeding it Monster Munch. Now there's an article for BB in the making!

Rhos Point

1 Balearic, possibly another or the same past west 5.30-6.30pm with 250-300 Manxi in good visibilty between the showers although light and weather went very poor 6.20.  40 Fulmar and a few Gannets also.  Thought I had a stormie also but couldnt get back on it after initial glimpse.  Maybe worth a look in the morning!

Balearic off the Range today also and 4 Cory off Strumble!

More Dunlin sp...

Trying to sort out my Dunlin at the mo especially with 2 bright juvs through this week. Here is another juv Dunlin (with alpina adults I think) taken today.  The juv is not as frosty looking as the one on fri-see post below.  Are the juvs separable to sp?  Does anyone know of any refs for splitting these? No sign of Little Stint after first sighting by the way.

Marsh Sand, Blacktoft RSPB

World tick on offer so a quick trip across the Pennines to catch up with the ad Marsh Sand which showed on and off from the ousefleet screen along with 7 Ruff and Green Sand.  Other hides provided Wood Sand, Spoonbill, Marsh Har, and 8 Spot Red.