Sunday, 29 December 2024

South Pembs

Most of the day out at several sites in the south of the county today. 

Amroth: 3 Red-breasted Merganser, 50 Red-throated Diver (136 offshore yesterday). Plus Marsh Tit in woodland nearby.

Wiseman's Bridge: 2 Red-breasted Merganser, 30 Red-throated Diver. 

Tenby North Beach: Great Northern Diver and Red-throated Diver offshore. 3 Purple Sandpiper in Lifeboat station ramp.

Tenby South Beach: 22 Ringed Plover, 1 Turnstone on the beach. 3 Great Northern Diver offshore. 

Bosherston Lily Ponds: 4 Goosander, 1 Tufted Duck, 7 Coot, 6 Little Grebe. And 3 Otter showing well in and around the reedbed below Stackpole Court. Goshawk over woodland near Bosherston village and 80 Lapwing in a nearby field. 

Angle Bay (Kilpaision side) 23 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, c50 Pintail, 4 Shoveler, 200+ Wigeon. 2 Knot, 7 Bar-tailed Godwit and several hundred Dunlin.

Angle Bay (Angle village side): 1 Greenshank, 7 Black-tailed Godwit in the harbour. 50 Common Gull, Eider (female), 3 Great Crested Grebe and a Slavonian Grebe offshore.