Eastern Cleddau Ospreys

We spent the morning on the Castlemartin peninsula with Paul Culyer of NRW, recording Goldilocks aster populations (a rare plant found in Pembs only on the Castlemartin Range) also noting a couple of pairs of local resident choughs and a few wheatears, small flocks of linnets but not much else.

Late this afternoon, we thought we'd have another look at the Landshipping area to see if the osprey was still around. It was, but also nice to see that there were two ospreys present. Both were a bit distant soaring around together over the Eastern Cleddau. They were probably closer to Slebech than they were to our view point at Landshipping. We managed a couple of "record shots", they were never close enough for a decent image.

Other than expected 30-40 redshanks and a couple of greenshanks near Landshipping Quay, there were still very few waterfowl on the estuary.