A bit of a walk and a visit to the St Ishmaels Sewerage Works (as you do!) was rewarded with at least six Chiffchaff on the filter beds with a Grey Wagtail and a couple of Pieds. All quite difficult to count as they foraged actively amongst the filter stones All the Chiff's looked like collibyta . Also nearby a couple of Nuthatch giving a Great Spotted Woodpecker some grief - so establishing territory probably. Lots of thrush activity and Jay's in the woodland with drumming Great spots.
Round the coast a load of badger activity and what seemed like more Song Thrush and Blackbirds than a week ago but basically fairly quiet. At the Gann maybe 10 Light bellied Brent Geese, a couple of Greenshank and a Bar-tailed Godwit which seem to be much scarcer than they used to be around the estuary. Up the river a large concentration of small gulls which seemed to be mainly Black-headed but clearly some Meds and a few Common Gulls (not so common as they used to be either). The Ravens are building their nest in the lone big pine on the east side of the river but the salt marsh was very quiet.
It was too cold to try and count the low tide waders but lots of the usual Curlew and Oystercatchers and a few Dunlin and 2 Little Egrets were evident. A small flock of teal on the Gann river above the footbridge too. Then in the garden the first Redwing I have seen since November and just hundreds of birds around the feeders with mostly Chaffinch and House Sparrow but lots of tits around too and a few more Goldfinch than in January. I wonder if there is much evidence of any cold weather movement from the east yet - or maybe its going to be too short lived to really move large numbers of birds to the west coast.