a welsh overnighter

 so we headed to wales having decided to stay at the lighthouse inn carpark at talacre 

talacre is if honest is a tacky place but the beach is great with the old lighthouse but a winter visit suited us better a lot quieter than when we use to use it at a place to walk jessie on the drive to colettes parents in dolgarog 

on the old coast road from queensferry to talacre is crammed with lots to see and visit 

flint castle 

id bought colette a pair of binoculars as she always wants to borrow mine 

simmons 8x42 master series 

not bad optics for £49 must be some opticron / hawke origins in these nice sharp image 

flint castle birds 

little egret 1

peregrine 1

black tailed godwit 18

talacre

a nice chiffchaff in the bushes by the beach 

merlin flew over the saltmarsh putting up all the linnets, meadow pipits 

lots of little egrets 

pink footed geese 21

brent goose 12

pintails nc

greenshank 1 

on the way home we visited ewloe castle another hidden gem in this part of wales