We had a brief, if somewhat rain-interrupted, look at the Middle
Millpond this afternoon and also along Pembroke Dock Front Street, but there was no sign
there of the GN Diver noted there yesterday afternoon.
The Millpond though now has two scaup
present. The greyer/darker bird appears to be slightly the bolder of the two.
Not that many years ago, there would have been a small flock of pochard on the
Millpond by early January, a once regular wintering species - not a certainty
though these days!
Little grebe numbers appear to be high. We
didn't do a complete count of the Millponds but noted c. 15 feeding on small fish
in just a small area of the Middle pond we were watching at dusk.
