Welsh Seals and Goats

 

This male grey seal is moulting, hence the shabby look.

This is as close as you can get to the seals, and wardens watch to make sure the seals are safe from people and dogs. It is very stressful for seals to be hassled. I used a 125X zoom lens to get my photos.

Many curlews and redshanks at RSPB Conwy

The wild goats of Llandudno keeping the road verges trimmed.

Back in Shropshire, here are two water vole burrows off Greenfields Rise.

Rare and Super-rare Birds

 

Above: wheatear. Below, meadow pipit.

Male ring ouzel!  Super-rare round here. There was a female too, but I didn't get a photo of her.

Below, a whinchat, a bird I've only seen once before.

Below, water vole burrows in the field off Edgeley Road.

Water vole droppings and feeding.

Little Ringed Plovers making little Little Ringed Plovers. Below, a cormorant in its breeding ruff.

Comma butterfly and a female brambling.

A beautiful back!