A visit to Westfield Pill yesterday for a less-muddy walk produced a (the?) Cetti's Warbler calling and lurking in the gorse and scrub at the ususal place adjacent to the reedbed. On the return trip the other half thought she saw it fly out into the open. It turned out to be another Firecrest, my seventh this winter and the fourth this year. Birdtrack suggests it is a bumper winter for them.
Also present at the northern end was a young Cormorant with a white on green colour ring. From my elevated position I could only read letters ZG, but it appears to be a bird ringed last summer at Puffin Island, Anglesey. This could be the first one in 11 years to be seen in Pembrokeshire, so if anybody can read all three letters, please tell Steve Dodds at sg.dodd@yahoo.com
