Grand tour of Anglesey today, a day off from the beach, although another glorious day 😎
We arrived at South Stack just after 10am and walked down to Ellis's Tower. 3 Chough were feeding at point blank range on the grass. Fantastic! In total we saw 14 Chough before we left...
Also in the heather were a couple of Silver-studded Blues, as well as numerous Grayling and our first Wall Brown's of the trip. The images below show the difference in the underwing pattern - the row of spots on the hindwing of the Wall Brown, not seen on the Grayling...
Offshore several Manx Shearwater moved past, as well as Gannet and Kittiwake. A bonus was a Bottle-nosed Dolphin in the bay to the west of the lighthouse.
On the heathland we also saw 3 young Wheatear, a family of Stonechat and a Kestrel zooming by with a couple of Raven in tow...
Next stop was Cemlyn Bay. A marvellous sight and sound of Arctic and Sandwich Terns, with good numbers of young birds. Soon we found the Roseate Tern that has been staying here recently, resting quite close on the rocks... Alas it flew before we got photos 🙁 New tick for Simon though 😀
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