Saturday, 21 December 2024

Amroth to Tenby this morning and Llanteg in the evening

Morning out checking the bay started at Amroth but with choppy seas there was little offshore there.

Wiseman's Bridge was more sheltered. 4 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Red-throated Diver and a drake Eider the best. On the beach 32 Turnstone were feeding along the tideline.

From Glen beach, Saudersfoot: 5 more Eider (4 Ad drake + female), 6 Great Crested Grebe and 3 Red-breasted Mergansers (they seem quite scarce this year).

Tenby: great views of Great Northern Diver feeding in Tenby harbour (plus a second off South beach), 9 Great Crested Grebe off North beach, 3 Guillemot and 3 Red-throated Diver. A single Purple Sandpiper was on the rocks below the lifeboat station.


Went back out for the gull roost off Glen beach this evening. 250 Black-headed gulls, 40 Common gull and 66 Kittiwake in. Unlike the Gann, no Meds! 

An evening walk around Llanteg produced a Woodcock, a few Commom snipe and surprisingly a Jack Snipe all dropping into the wet fields around the village.