Late post from April trip to N.Wales 1 of 2

I totally forgot to post about this a few months ago when I had my first week of the year on the North Wales coast. We had a lovely week at my favorite cottage where we have been going for a few years. The location is perfect as its close to the little Orme with views of the sea and gets the most amazing sunlight first thing in the morning. On one of the days we spent a day walking from Conwy to

Llanfairfechan to see if the local swans had nested on a marine lake but unfortunately they had not started. No Swans nesting on the lake but what we did find were some lovely rivers flowing into the sea perfect for photographing and filming Sea trout later in the year. The bird we ended up finding at the lake was a female Goosander who was quite happy to let us close to get a few photographs. There were a few kids around chasing the ducks so we had to wait till the bird felt comfortable to stay still. If somebody got to close she would jump back on the water for safety.

The female Goosander getting blown around on the windswept lake

 
One female Mallard gets totally mobbed by her suitors

As the sun went down it cast a stunning golden light over the lake reflecting from the sea onto the area

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Stay wild, be happy and be safe
 

Mike

Lunch by the river with a Goosander family

As I run www.GoWildlifeWatching.co.uk in the afternoons and I have a part time job in the mornings. So after my morning Job I decided not to go straight home to work on the shop, Instead I popped down to one of my local rivers to eat my lunch on the river bank as it was a stunning summery day. Luckily I had my camera with me with 1 battery left and from in the reeds below me a family of Goosanders swam upriver. 
There was 1 female and 8 young and as I had the wrong setting on my camera I did not have time to change. I was very pleased with the sighting as this is a second family I've seen this year with freshly hatched baby's I am guessing they nest quite close.

The female led the youngsters back down river past me and usually they journey upriver as the other day 
I saw the first female with 3 youngsters a few miles upriver and they had grown quite alot.

Regards
Mike

Two panoramas from my local rivers one river is more shallow has plenty of weed and the other is deeper and more clay and sand but each have there positives. The panorama at the top is my Otter watching spot where you can see my green bench and this site is yet to deliver.

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