A few highlights from recent days:
A super-smart Bar-tailed Godwit yesterday & today (a second winter plumaged bird with it yesterday) - perhaps the same as that seen at St Brides? Yesterday a leggy Black-tailed Godwit with the Barwits. Yesterday I also received news that the limosa Black-tailed Godwit that was here from 18th-27th March, was seen in Chichester Harbour in Sussex on 2nd April - on its way back to the Netherlands it seems! Lovely stuff.
This evening 28 Ringed Plover and 7 Dunlin, over the last 2 days between 9 & 11 Redshank - on each day 5 ringed birds, but 8 different individuals.
The Oystercatcher that Rosemary mentioned earlier numbered 94 birds this evening. A number of 2CY birds but also plenty of adults, definitely a movement of birds between here and breeding sites, presumably the breeders will settle down soon. For example ringed bird no.58 was at the Gann on 15th March, on Skomer from 23rd March to 8th April, and then back here on 11th April.
Lisa recorded the first Reed Warbler of the spring here this morning, otherwise a scattering of Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler, as well as occasional Sand Martin and Swallow passing through.
Other recent records included a Common Sandpiper (8th), a Greylag Goose (10th - with four other presumed Greylags over the same day) and the sinesis Cormorant continues to linger.
A search of the Deer Park on 10th for colour-ringed Wheatear found Skokholm ringed male B01, a bird ringed as a juvenile in 2018 and which bred on the Deer Park in 2019 with another Skokholm bird, female A60. He was with an unringed female. Also lovely to see a female Merlin, a bird that has also been visiting Skomer (and I saw it hop across to Midland).
Finally, the Serbian-ringed Mediterranean Gull red Y168 was here still on 10th - we still await details of when and exactly where it was ringed.
