PROGRAMME:
Monday 28 February
7.00 p.m. Welcome reception.
7.15 p.m. Dinner in restaurant
8.30 p.m. Coffee followed by introduction and plan for the
week.
Tuesday 1 March
8.00 a.m. Breakfast in the restaurant.
Pick up packed lunch.
9.15 a.m. Meet in car park, travel by
minibus to Newborough. Explore Afon Braint, Malltraeth Cob Pool and Cors Ddyga.
These sites offer a wide variety of wintering birds such as waders, wildfowl
and raptors.
12.30 p.m. Packed lunch at picnic site.
1.30 p.m. The afternoon will be spent further along the
coast, visiting Beddmenarch Bay for more gatherings of waders and wildfowl including Pale-bellied Brent
Geese. We will then head on to Holyhead Harbour which attracts auks and
divers, finishing at South Stack RSPB reserve, one of the
strongholds in North Wales for Red-billed Chough.
5.00 p.m. Return to the hotel.
7.00 p.m. Dinner in restaurant.
8.30 p.m. Coffee and re-cap of day.
Wednesday 2 March
8.00 a.m. Breakfast in the restaurant.
Pick up packed lunch.
9.15 a.m. Meet in car
park, travel by minibus to Red Wharf Bay which is a great area for
sea-watching. Divers and scoters are regular sightings and this site is known
for Jack Snipe (notoriously difficult to see) and both Rock and the much rarer
Water Pipit.
We then move on to Penmon Point, the most easterly point of
Anglesey where we have the best chance of the classic sea-birds such as
Kittiwake, Fulmar, Shag, auks (including Black Guillemot) and roosting Purple
Sandpipers
12.30 p.m. Packed lunch at Penmon Point
1.30 p.m. For contrast we will explore the nearby Afon
Lleiniog which can be productive for a range of woodland species including
wintering Chiffchaffs and occasional Firecrest, finally returning along the
Menai Straits, stopping at wader and gull roosts.
5.00 p.m. Return to the hotel.
7.00 p.m. Dinner in restaurant.
8.30 p.m. Coffee and re-cap of day.
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Thursday 3 March
8.00 a.m. Breakfast in the restaurant.
Pick up packed lunch.
9.15
a.m.
Meet in car park, travel to Conwy RSPB reserve, one of
the best birdwatching sites in the whole of Wales. Renowned for
gatherings of waders and wildfowl, it is also excellent for Kingfisher and
water Rail. Morning at reserve before calling in at Caerhun Church, a known
site for Hawfinch – but by no means guaranteed!
12.30 p.m. Packed lunch at Conwy
Our return journey brings us back along the North Wales coast and we will stop
off at some of the excellent sites such as Llanfairfechain, and Aber Ogwen.
5.00 p.m. Return to the hotel.
7.00 p.m. Dinner in restaurant.
8.30 p.m. Coffee and re-cap of day.
Friday 4 March
8.00 a.m. Breakfast in the restaurant
9.15 a.m. Depart