Showing posts with label Ramsey Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramsey Island. Show all posts

Friday, 5 June 2015

Ramsey Island Part 2, Caerfai Bay

A second visit to Ramsey Island. This time going around it on a boat. The weather had taken a turn for the worse, with choppy waves, heavy cloud and drizzle. If only we could have gone the previous afternoon!

Finally got to see lots of the cliff-nesting birds, sometimes at eye-level, and lots of Razorbills flying to and fro, floating on the sea. Regularly saw Grey Seals having a nose, and a pair of Choughs again.

Ramsey Island boat route

Boat was rockin' so we just sprayed-and-prayed with the cameras.

Rush hour in Pembrokeshire

Bloody-nosed Beetle, saw these everywhere

Juvenile Cormorant

Razorbill

Pair of Guillemot

Kittiwakes on nests

Razorbill

Curious Grey Seal

Colony of Guillemot

Guillemot

Razorbills

Pair of Chough

With an afternoon left to soak up, we went round to Caerfai Bay, starting at Caer Bwdy Bay, to see what we could see. Very rocky shoreline, covered in weeds. The tide was slowly coming back in. Lots of gulls flying past the cliffs. Very lush, green vegetation covered in caterpillars but way too hot under the sun again. We came across a thick clump of Oxeye Daisies on the way back.

Caerfai Bay route


Lush vegetation leading to rocky Caer Bwdy Bay

Waiting for birds, but tide's coming in

Photographing rocks, it's something to do

Lots of weed in Caer Bwdy Bay

Lots of purple rocks in Caer Bwdy Bay

Fulmar

Herring Gull on rock

Waves on rocks

Linnet on Foxglove

Oxeye Daisies

Oxeye Daisies

Buckled rock formations forming an arch

Herring Gull

Juvenile Gull


Thursday, 4 June 2015

Ramsey Island

Time to brave the mighty Atlantic and take the 5 minute ferry over to Ramsey Island. Bright blue skies again, very hot under the sun. We had booked a tour around the island on a boat after the island, but they decided they had better things to do, so it was postponed to the next day.

Lots more walking than I had expected, and a lot less birds, hardly anything visible from the Island itself. More Choughs but still no luck getting good shots. Some cliff-nesting birds visible from the paths. Nice views from the south of the island, looking out to Ynys Bery and lots of wildflowers everywhere (should have left the big lenses behind and stuck to flowers).

Ramsey Island elevation

Ramsey Island route

Lots of Thrift

Thrift and Birds-foot Trefoil (yellow flowers)

South of the Island

South of the Island

Old RNLI boat house

Ramsey Island Chicken

View across Ramsey Island

View to the north of the island

I've got this lump of lead with me, might as well use it to photograph flowers

And relax

Oystercatcher

The "Tin Bath"

Those pesky Choughs again

Stonechat

Island tours

Flotilla of Razorbills

Fulmars

Everpresent Grey Seal

Thrift and Bird's-foot Trefoil

Guillemots on the cliffs