Wednesday 30 September 2020

Angle Bay - Rhoscrowther end

Early yesterday evening, over at Angle Bay on a rising/near high tide we noted 7 light-bellied Brents resting offshore. They moved over towards the harbour-side of the bay. 

On the Sawdern Point-side, there were three separate roosts occupied by waders, including: c.100-120 Curlews, 70-80 Oystercatchers and at least 30-40 Dunlin (probably more). Around 6-7 Knot were also visible but views of the area were distant. 

A Kingfisher flew across the bay, where there were at least 500 Wigeon resting offshore, plus some possible new arrivals occasionally dropping in from the Milford Haven direction. At least 5 GC Grebes were feeding out in the bay. The Mute Swan flock feeding just offshore numbered 23.

The previous day at Landshipping was fairly quiet, but a 1CY Goshawk (possibly one that has been around for a few weeks now) was chased across the mouth of the Eastern Cleddau by the resident crows.  

Finally, a big thankyou to Richard C. for setting up the Sightings and Bird Group Blog-sites all those years ago and for your input to maintain these sites now, pleasingly, to be run as one combined site.