I covered Davids WeBS from Hook Quay to Sprinkle on the weekend, despite living in Haverfordwest I rarely get onto the estuary these days so always nice to have a few hours down there. The Golden plovers at Sprinkle totalled 2830, a flock of c200 Dunlin were flying around the Picton Point junction settling on both sides of the river before heading up towards Landshipping, 390 Lapwing at Hook (with a very similar number later at Sprinkle, so likely the same flock). 280 Canada geese flew down from somewhere above Millin Pill and dropped noisily on to the river with 23 Greylags. 45 Redshank, 34 Curlew, 22 Snipe, 15 Ringed plover, 9 Greenshank. 4 GC grebe. 285 Teal, 117 Wigeon, 86 Mallard, 27 Shelduck.
Llys-y-fran gulls this evening. A decent sized gull roost, 1800 LBBs at 4pm increased to 4600 at 4:20pm eventually totalling 5500. BH gulls reaching a respectable 2650. 5 Yellow-legged gulls (3 adult, a 2cy and 1cy). 3 adult GBBs. A couple of interesting large grey mantled gulls, the smaller one had the look of a LBB/HG cross, the other much larger gull gave more Caspian vibes both gulls were packed tight to the far side out of the chill so hard to see much detail. I'd left it late getting there which meant picking much else out in the failing light was hard. 3 Goldeneye up beyond the hide. 6-7 GC grebe and 3 Little grebe. I could hear numbers of Canada geese arriving as I was leaving at 5:15pm, too dark to see by then.