Newport Estuary

 Common sandpiper 3

Oystercatcher 2

Little egret  4

Pengeli forest 

Pied flygcatcher pair 

Restart pair 

Great spotted woodpecker 1

Blackcap 2

Willow warbler 3

Tree creeper 1

Osprey - Uzmaston

A dream come true yesterday afternoon, as an Osprey came steaming north along the Cleddau from below Uzmaston! Also a singing Whitethroat. 

Marloes Mere

Both the Greenland White-fronted and Pink-footed Goose still at Marloes Mere this afternoon. It was wonderful to see (and hear) 2 Lapwing displaying. Also my first Sedge Warblers of the year. (With Owen & Glynis Roberts)

Yesterday a Common Swift flew west along the coast path at Lindsway Bay, St Ishmaels.

Skokholm

A Little Ringed Plover yesterday and today, a Blue-headed Wagtail today. 

Castlemartin Range this morning and bits and pieces from last week

Out in the Castlemartin Range today it was nice to see c.50 sand martins back at a usual colony area at the Furzenips. There were at least 20 or more house martins too, probably passing through, although some might have been returning summer residents at the Furzenips. Here there are also usually several cliff-nesting pairs - sand martins on the eroding softer cliff-top and house martins in rocky crevices/small overhangs below. We wonder if the two species breed close together elsewhere in natural sites on the Pembs coast. 

Of 14 ringed plovers (with a couple of dunlin) on the beach this morning, 2 pairs appeared to be settling into a usual breeding spot, although the beach profile is much steeper than last year with more limited potentially suitable breeding habitat present.

This morning there was a small passage of curlews plus a dozen or so whimbrels in separate small groups heading up the coast.

Lots of whitethroats are back on territory in usual patches of scrub, plus large numbers of linnets across the Range. Kestrels are also back at a usual breeding location, where a mating pair was observed a couple of weeks ago.

Most of the resident pairs of chough seem to be well settled and breeding, although a few (likely new/younger pairs) are still giving us the run-around. Also, the same along other parts of the southern Limestone coast where some pairs had still not settled earlier in the week.

In the south of the county, we also noted a grasshopper warbler singing in some good breeding habitat at Cors Penally mid-week.  Another grasshopper warbler was at Templeton Airfield, along with willow warblers and yellowhammers in their usual breeding habitat.

From a distance, this afternoon we noted an almost full-grown juvenile heron in one of Bosherston nests. Like ravens, herons can be quite early breeders.  

Pwll Deri

 From Sandra Young - Pwll Deri

Pod of dolphins

Nesting, rafting and Guillemots on rocks.

Gannets

Choughs 

Fulmar

Great black back gills

Herring gulls

Cormorants

Stone chats

What a feast!

Thanks for the Plumstone Cuckoo info!

Having not heard a Cuckoo all last spring, we headed to Plumstone this morning. At around 11am we arrived and walked up to the "Mountain" with three or four Wheatears seen on and around the track. Sitting on a rock beneath the "Mountain" my little heart sung, Halleluja!!! One perhaps two were calling from near the right hand side of the Fir plantation. When I first moved here thirty odd years ago, into our cottage on Pen Caer, several would be calling from April into June but in the last ten/twelve years, they have been few and far between, and i have really missed them. This afternoon a Grasshopper warbler was singing in the WTSWW Llangloffan Fen reserve Almost forgot, a red-head Goosander was on the seaward sidee of the iron bridge Nevern Estuary at low tide in the afternoon.

Plumstone Cuckoos

Two Cuckoos were very close together on Plumstone Mountain this afternoon. We heard the male calling near the top initially, then unintentionally disturbed the pair hidden in a bush on the way back down the hill. I think I can guess what they were doing.

Marloes peninsula

 From Bryn and Ros Burgess

Marloes Mere to Wooltack Point

Most birds around Marloes Mere unless noted otherwise

Whitethroat- 2

Swallow - 3

Sand Martin - c20

House Martin - 1

Sedge Warbler - 1

Ringed Plover - 2 (overhead)

Shoveler - 20

Tufted Duck - 4

L Grebe - 1

Gadwall - 8

Coot - 16

Wigeon - 7

Teal - 22

White - fronted Goose - 1

Pink footed Goose - 1

Mallard - 10

Moorhen - 3

Chiffchaff - 1

Stonechat 3

Wheatear - 2  @ Wooltack Point

Chough - 1 @ Wooltack Point

Little Haven, Broadhaven, Gann

 From Bryn & Ros Burgess 

Sunday 12/4/26 from The Point Little Haven 3 Sandwich Tern, a Great Northern Diver in nearly complete summer plumage and at least 3 Guillemot. 3 Swallow above Little Haven. Monday 13/4/26 around St Justinians east along the coast. 2 male Wheatear, 3 Stonechat, 3 House Martin, 12 Swallow, single Sand Martin, Rock Pipit,  4 Chough and my first Whitethroat of the year in scrubby area above the Lifeboat station.

14/4/26. Broadhaven North - Lion Rock1510 - 1530 hrs

Purple Sandpiper - 19

Turnstone - 2

Oycs - 4

Razorbill - 5

Guillemot - 2

The Gann 1555 - 1620 hrs

Moorhen - 1

L Egret - 1

Guillemot - 1 (close in on the sea)

Redshank - 3

Greenshank - 1

Shelduck - 2

15/4/26

Slash Pond, Broadhaven 1520 - 1540 hrs

Chiffchaff - 2

Goldcrest - 1

The Point, Little Haven 1605 - 1735 hrs

Shag - 1

Fulmar- 2

Guillemot - at least 10

Razorbill - 1

Red - throated Diver - 9 is this number unusual this time of year?? I presume birds now moving north.

Great Crested Grebe - 1

Oycs - 25

Whimbrel - 8 moving west

Marloes Mere

The Pinkfoot and the White-front were still in Trehills fields to the west of the mere with a small group of canadas, when I left they were settling down in the field to sleep. Mallard with ducklings tonight. The 2 male lapwing were visible and quiet hopefully the female is sitting tight now.