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North Wales hosts six different types of breeding gull each summer, not just the Herring Gull which gets a bad name because of our wasteful food practices.
In winter, a few other gull species show up, and last week’s storms caused two scarcer Gulls to appear.
A Glaucous Gull, a white-winged seabird from the Arctic edge, was at Old Colwyn on Sunday, where Scaup, Long-tailed Duck and Velvet Scoters remain on the sea.
Pictured....Little Gulls, our tiniest gull, pluck insects from the surface of the sea while hovering over the waves.
A flock of eight fed off Criccieth on Sunday, blown inshore with a Great Skua, and another Little Gull was on the Glaslyn estuary at Porthmadog; these gulls will ultimately head east to nest around the Baltic Sea.
Grey Phalarope was another storm-blown waif at Porth Ysgaden near Nefyn, while a Lapland Bunting was at South Stack.
A flock of Waxwings flew over Penrhynside on Monday morning, and a Hooded Crow was on Holyhead Mountain.
Black-necked Grebe and a flock of Scaup are on Anglesey’s Inland Sea and Slavonian Grebes nearby off Penrhos Coastal Park.
Spotted Redshanks and up to 50 Twite are at Connah’s Quay.
A friend this week filmed tens of thousands of Sand Martins consuming insects in a feeding frenzy in Senegal ahead of their flight to Europe.
With good weather, the first will be in North Wales in just a few weeks, perhaps sooner, as several were sighted in south west England at the weekend.