Saturday, 24 April 2021

Toby's travels

 From Toby Middlemist

Yesterday afternoon around the Gann with Dave, 5 Brents, 10 Ringed Plover, 15 Whimbrel, 4 Barwit & 1 Blackwit, 3 Dunlin, 5 Common Gull, and 2 Singing Reed Warblers. Also nice to meet Derek.

This afternoon around Pencarnen, had a few brilliant birds, the best of which was an extremely large Whimbrel Flock of about 100 birds in a field on the coastal path. The amount of Whimbrel around was quite ridiculous, with the total coming to 157! Also a Shag and a Buzzard, 3 Sand Martin & 28 Swallow, a nice Cetti's Warbler on the stream down to the Beach, 3 Sedge Warbler around, 12 Whitethroat(!), 11 Stonechat, 20 Wheatear, 21 Medpips, and 42 Linnet. Sadly didn't manage a Yellow Wagtail.