This morning a female Goosander with 2 diving but still flightless and I guess c10 day old juveniles were watched from the river view point on the Reserve. Over the past 2 years the Teifi Marshes is the only Pembs site to record Goosanders in June and July (see 2020 & 2021 Pembs Bird Reports). Surely this female and juvs are from a nest in the Cilgerran area of the river....
Yesterday...an adult Herring Gull wearing white 2PH was seen on the river.
Last seen by (the late) Sam Baxter at Newport on 17th July 2018 - Yesterday evening 6th June 2022, and the Gull is now c19 years old, having been ringed as a sub adult on 18th March 2004 at a Gloucester landfill site where it wintered until 2010. (thanks to Peter Stewart for history)
(Rich D and Wendy J)