British Garden Birds

The RSPB Conwy reserve, near Llandudno in north Wales, was created from the spoil from the construction works for the A55 Conwy tunnel and provides scrub, reed beds and pools next to the Conwy estuary.

I first visited the reserve in 1987, a year after it opened, and it still looked very much like a construction site, since then I have visited two and three times a year and the transformation is remarkable. Today, many species of birds, especially waders and wildfowl, can be watched feeding and roosting on the reserve, but also Buzzards and Ravens are often flying over the nearby woodlands.

Below is a list of species I have observed on visits in the spring, summer and autumn.

What You Might See
Bar-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Blackbird Black-headed Gull Black-necked Grebe Blue Tit Canada Goose Carrion Crow Chiffchaff Common Buzzard Common Gull Common Sandpiper Common Snipe Coot Cormorant Curlew Dunlin Gadwall Goldeneye Goldfinch Great Black-backed Gull Great Crested Grebe Greenfinch	Greenshank Grey Heron Greylag Goose Herring Gull House Martin House Sparrow Kestrel Lapwing Lesser Black-backed Gull Little Grebe Little Ringed Plover Little Stint Magpie Mallard Meadow Pipit Moorhen Mute Swan Oystercatcher Peregrine Pied Wagtail Pochard Red-breasted Merganser Redshank	Reed Bunting Reed Warbler Ringed Plover Robin Ruddy Duck Sand Martin Sedge Warbler Shelduck Shoveler Skylark Sparrowhawk Starling Stock Dove Stonechat Swallow Swift Teal Tufted Duck Water Rail White-fronted Goose Whitethroat Wigeon Wood Sandpiper