Sunday, 12 July 2020

Sandpipers, Shelduck and Swifts....

The first Green Sandpiper of the autumn was flying around the Teifi Marshes this morning. 16 Common Sandpipers only last night, 31 the evening before at the same 3 sites visited.
Two creches / families of  Shelduck are all we have left -  4 juveniles with adults faithful to the Pinog area and 3 juvs with adults moving around the St Dogmael's Quay area. The rest of the adults have left the area to moult.
Screaming presumed family parties of Swifts were flying around the nest sites in Cilgerran and St Dogmael's last night.
Two Black-tailed Godwits and a Greenshank from Curlew hide on the reserve yesterday and several Kingfishers entertaining the photographers. c20 Med Gulls out in the estuary too far away to do any colour-ring reading.