Stackpole - Lodge Park & Court-site area this morning

Some bat-related things took us over to Stackpole. While there we had a walk through Lodge Park and around bits of Bosherston Lakes Upper Eastern Arm and the Court-site.

At least two firecrests were in the trees alongside the path that runs below the court-site, another typical location for them. Most likely there will be several others in the lake-side trees. You have to wonder just how many there are in the various wooded areas of Pembs at the moment. 

With numerous berries, nuts and seeds, Lodge Park looks highly suited to any hawfinches that happen to pass through the area. Sadly we couldn’t find one there this morning.

A few redwings were feeding on the berries alongside various blackbirds that were gorging on them. Later on a few more redwings were feeding in the hedgerow outside our garden.

A few swallows fed over the court-site and a couple of red admiral butterflies continued to fly around the ivy blossom, despite the dull misty, murky conditions and increasingly persistent drizzle.

A quick look at the estuary below Carew Mill on our way home produced a Med Gull (probably the regular adult that often accompanies a small black-headed gull flock during the late summer/autumn period). It seemed generally quiet in that area otherwise.