If the weather improves I will be visiting the Terns on Anglesey next week to get some better Photographs of them, it’s one of my favourite spots in Wales. The Terns pass overhead carrying Sand Eels to feed their young, but it’s not easy to get a good photograph.

 You can pick up the birds as they come in with a 500mm on a tripod or 300mm    handheld. I will be trying with a 400mm 5.6 lens that I have not really used much, if the images are ok I will keep the lens if not I will be selling it.

Cemlyn Nature Reserve:

Cemlyn Nature Reserve, near Cemaes on Anglesey, is an internationally important sea bird colony. Up to three species of tern nest each summer on a series of islands in a lagoon. The terns return to breed on Anglesey from their wintering grounds off the coast of Africa and elsewhere.

 

The Sandwich tern colony is one of the largest in the UK and in 2006 held about 10% of the UK breeding population.

Highlights: Sandwich, Common and Arctic Terns, Golden Plover, Oystercatcher, Curlew,

Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Redshank, Purple Sandpiper, Whitethroat, Grey Seals, Common Lizard, Adder, Butteerflies, Wildflowers.

Location: Cemlyn is sign-posted from Tregele on the A5025 between Valley and Amlwch.

 Although the roads to the site are narrow, there are two car parks adjacent to the reserve

Grid references. SH329936 & SH336932.

The reserve is open throughout the year: admission is free.

Sandwich Tern