From Melanie Felton: Have 23 little egret on Quoits Mill Pill at 14.20 , largest number I have seen here for a few years.
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Monday, 10 November 2025
Llys-y-fran
I did my gulls WeBS this evening. Arriving late around 4pm there were scattered groups of gulls with the biggest concentrations towards the top half as is often the way. I'd passed a few hundred LBB lifting off the fields just east of Llys-y-fran heading towards the dam on my way. With the recent wet weather it was no surprise to see around 1500 gulls in the field to the north who were reluctant to come to roost. A count at 4:30pm gave 5,200 LBBs, 445 BH gulls, c40 Herring gull, 10 Common gull, 3 adult Yellow-legged gulls and a single adult Mediterranean. The failing light and drizzle had me packing up around 4:45pm with a big wave of large gulls arriving from the east. Looking across from near the boat house gulls were 10 deep and the length of the reservoir and into the western arm. 50 Greylag geese flew in noisily from the south as I left at 4:55pm did a u-turn and headed back the way they'd come presumably back to the Cleddau.
Ringed GBB Gull
A ringed GBB juvenile seen at Mackerel Quay Milford Haven this afternoon, 10/11.25 approx 15 30. Red W479
Dave Butler
WeBS at Fishguard Harbour
Three Great Northern Diver in the harbour on this mornings WeBS, and also 19 Ringed Plover, a good number for this site.
There were a couple of colour-ringed gulls:
Black-headed gull (J0852) ringed under a Norwegian scheme, and a Med Gull (PYT8) ringed under a Polish scheme, awaiting details on both.
Sunday, 9 November 2025
Whooper Swans
Family of six look like they're firmly esconsed in the field above Sandyhaven chapel. Two weeks now.
Black Redstarts
Hello, on Thursday a Black Redstart at The Hookses, Dale airfield and also one at the cottages at St Anne's Head.
Mike Duckham.
Other news
Some excellent birds reported on other platforms include. The Pallid harrier briefly at the Dowrog on Friday, a Pallid swift at Carreg wastad, Goodwick, same day. Pallas warbler and Dusky warbler, both Porthclais on Saturday by Steve Jones and George Mee. 3 Glossy ibis, by Lisa in the feld above Mullock bridge on Saturday.
Saturday, 8 November 2025
North Pembs
Two Snow Bunting over Foel Eryr and a female Scaup on Rosebush res this morning. (Den Vaughan)
Three new Firecrests on the Teifi Marshes this morning...also 3 adult Whooper Swans and 9 Goosander on the river..
Dale
A good look around the airfield, dozen or so blackbird on the track up, a few chaffinch, a chiffchaff, a blackcap and goldcrests. 110 lapwing in the old potato field did a fly around. Flocks of starling collectively numbered around 1,000. Lots of pipit, skylark and a mixed flock of 75 linnet and goldfinch. Only 7 snipe on a walk through the inner triangle. A swallow at Marloes Sands end. No sign of Lisa's ibis at Mullock, bumped into Andy B who informed me they'd flown northwards. I wandered up the road back towards the Slate Mill to get a view of the fields towards St Brides, 100 wood pigeon, small flock of redwing, 2 red kite, 5 jays and 2 mistle thrush passing down the valley. Back for a look up Mullock marsh, chiffchaff in the reeds by Crabhall, but quiet until a young peregrine flushed the spotted redshank from one of the creeks.
WeBS Castlemartin Corse
Thanks to Richard for joining me and to Adam who contributed to the count when we happened to be in the hide at the same time as each other.
The recent rain means a nice lot of water currently present on the Corse. I wonder how well the water will hold this winter after recent required drainage work. Most of the birds counted were from upper corse farmland section.
We had a flock of 548 lapwing which later started to move from upper corse to feeding on the fields opposite the hide. A small flock of 38 Golden Plover were also present. We recorded 5 Curlew, 3 from upper corse and 2 over hide area. A flock of 24 Graylag and a little egret was also present on upper corse.
We had 160 Black Headed gulls on the upper corse along with a handful of Lesser Black Back and Herring Gull to finish the gull species off.
As for ducks we totalled 92 Mallard, 17 Shoveller, 29 Wigeon, 43 Teal and 4 Pintail.
The 2 Grey herons and a lone Moorhen were added when we met Adam.
Think the highlight again was the female Kingfisher who kindly flew about in front of hide but she then flew to a fence post a little too far away for an image.
As Richard and I started to walk back a sparrowhawk flew past us which was the first raptor of the day.
I walked the ‘snipe’ field which added to the at that time single figure count to total 49 birds. On the way back across the field I picked up on a kestrel which was hovering over adjacent field.
The Marsh Harriers decided to be shy today and did not make the count but know there were 2 there a week ago. No water rail were heard today, yet there were a few shouting at each other from within the reeds last time I was there!
WEBS at the Gann
Nothing particulalry exciting apart from two Bar-tailed Godwits, but the whole area was simply hopping with assorted pipits and wagtails. Nice to see so many small birds about.
Rosemary Royle
Male pochard at Penberi
A male pochard was a nice surprise at Penberi earlier this morning.
Ring-tail hen harrier and 3 jack snipe were the highlights of an early WeBS on Dowrog
Friday, 7 November 2025
Bird sighting - Black Redstart?
From Andy Thorp: Not sure if this is of interest but spotted an unusual bird in my back garden in Pembroke. Robin sized but no red breast, orange/red tail when it flew. Was feeding on insects in the underside of an outside seat canopy i think. Difficult to get a decent picture but got these two. Looked online to identify and sounded very much like a black redstart.
Porth Sele on Thursday
From Roger Wilkinson: Obviously the birds were as relieved as the rest of us to have a
day without persistent rain. In the hour after dawn there was a
constant flow of Chaffinch (460 counted), Skylark (170) and Starlings
(very roughly 3000) heading W/SW through Porth Sele. Many Starlings also
in the fields.
Single Merlin and SEO along St John's Head towards St Justinian.
Photo for atmospheric value rather than technical merit
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Marloes peninsula
Like a few others, I had a mooch around Marloes peninsula this afternoon between 2pm and 4:30pm to check some of the fields. Beautiful calm and unexpectedly mild afternoon. 30 lapwing on the mere but nothing unusual with them, the mere looks great at the moment. A couple of good looking fields and scrapes that were created earlier in the year down towards Martin's Haven but just corvids and increasing numbers of starling, biggest flock c 2,000 birds had caught the attention of a merlin.
Skokholm
The Killdeer has been between here and Skomer, last heard over here at just after 16:00. Also Black Redstart and a small fall of Chiffchaff and Blackcap. A Crimson Speckled was near North Pond.
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Skokholm
A Killdeer arrived to North Pond at 15:30 this afternoon. It was still there at dusk. A boat currently looks unlikely.
