A walk from town to Uzmaston and back today was pretty quiet, but on the way out a 50 gull roost of Herring and Lesser Black-back gulls had assembled at the SWT outfall by lunchtime. On the way back the numbers had increased to around 130, so worth a count and a closer look. As often the case, the count was disrupted by a different gull, a subadult Caspian Gull showing many classic features and posing next to a Herring Gull for comparison.
A couple of Great Black-back Gulls also turned up later.
Haverfordwest town was bustling with visitors to the food festival, but all were apparently oblivious to a Dipper feeding just across the river and feeding on a caddis larva and, just 5m away, a Grey Wagtail was hunting for food for the chick following on behind.
There was plenty more evidence of new spring life with a Mallard and at least three small ducklings on Merlin's Brook and a pair of adult Greylags with six small goslings north of the town. A dead, apparently Blackbird chick was on the path beside Bridge Meadow Trust playground, apparently fallen out of the nest as a reminder that they don't all make it.