An extremely blustery walk at West Williamston this morning with the path covered in long stretches by seaweed a foot deep driven up by the big tides and wind. On the north bank of the Cresswell River 300+ Dunlin were roosting with a few Lapwing scattered amongst them. Some 15 Redshank and 24 Curlew made a showing as they flew past or rose up calling from the marsh. 29 Shelduck were rafted up towards the north side of the Cresswell and started to move around as the tide dropped. 6 Snipe came out of the marsh and dropped down by the water’s edge, around 40 Wigeon flew in from up stream and 45 Lapwing flew from the Carew River over towards Lawrenny. Nice to see 9 Grey Plover fly past and a squadron of 48 Canada Geese put on a noisy show as they flew past low and headed North.
Walking back down the side of the Carew River there were 95 Greylags on the East bank - difficult to count with the wind blowing the binoculars about.
Mid afternoon a Great Northern Diver was just off the ramp of Tenby Lifeboat station.