A LLECHRYD bird-spotter took this dramatic shot of a rare White Stork flying over the Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve at Cilgerran this morning.

“These birds are extremely rare visitors to west Wales,” Dyfed James told the Cambrian News. “They’re the type of things you normally see on rooftops in Holland.

“They spend their winters in Iberia or north Africa and in spring their migration course takes them to Northern or Eastern Europe.

“Presumably, this one has been blown off course by recent high south-easterly winds.

“It is a large bird well over a metre long, weighing from 2.5 to 4.5kg, with a wing span from 1.5 to 2.1m.

“It’s quite an impressive sight – when you see it flying it simply cannot be anything else.”