Last Friday myself and good friend Dave Gilbert made the most of the last of the recent fine weather by meeting up at Cardiff Bay hoping to catch up with the Long-tailed Duck that had been recently favouring an area of the bay near the barrage.
It favours the area where the orange pontoons are sited adjacent to the sluices and we soon found it still present.
On my walk to meet Dave I bumped into Matt Meehan and had a look through Matt's 'scope at the also present Black-necked Grebe which spends it's time in the middle of the bay and is far too distant to photograph, it was nice to see all the same and good to catch up with Matt and chat.
After having 'filled our boots' with the duck we enjoyed a pleasant walk along the barrage to Porth Teigr near the BBC studios which has been home to wintering Black Redstarts for a couple of years.
After a while a stunning male appeared from nowhere on the pile of large rocks in the middle of the waste ground which allowed for some 'record shots' as it was far too distant for anything better.
I have yet to see one perched on the stacks of building materials near the fence which some others have been fortunate to experience, one day I may get lucky.
The bird disappeared as secretively as it had arrived and so we made our way back to our vehicles bumping into Rhodri Watkins and a friend at the LTD location where we stopped for a chat.
We decided to call it a day and after a cuppa and a pasty I spent 20 mins photographing a few Common Redshank favouring the shoreline along John Batchelor Way before heading for home........
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