Wednesday 1 May 2024
Cilgelynen
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Marloes Mere
An hour around the mere this evening. 100s of Sand martin feasting on clouds of midges, the duck including the distant drake Garganey were busy supping in the pupae by the look of it as well. With the glut of insects odd there were no obvious wagtails. First Sedge warblers with 3-4 around the mere and a female Whitethroat. The 2 young coot still around, a nesting crow was carrying what looked like a coots egg. Pair Tufted duck, Shoveler 4 pair and 7 male, Teal a pair and a male. Pair Wigeon. Shelduck in Trehills field. 2 Whimbrel.
Monday 29 April 2024
PWLL Deri Yesterday
Frm Sandra Young:
29+ guillemots and several razorbills seen rafting around
Middle sized island. Many more on smaller island plus Canada goose, gulls mating.
Swallows, martins, kestral, 7 choughs.
28th April Sightings at Llanwnda, Goodwick
From David Collins:
Sunday 28 April 2024
Pengelli forest
Pied flycatcher 4 males 1 female
Redstart male
Blackcap 5
Chiff chaff 10
Tree creeper 4
Nuthatch 4
Buzzard 2
More Gwaun
A beautiful spring day in the Gwaun and getting warm on the south-facing slopes in the afternoon - a bit further west than Brian's location - revealed a pair of Pied Flycatchers. Nearby was a male Redstart that was much more flighty than the showy male pied. On the river were two pairs of Dippers. The flora was looking impressive too with wild garlic in full flower.
Gwaun
A cracking day in the Gwaun with Paul checking some of the woodlands. Nice to have 5 Pied flycatcher and at least 3 Redstart between Cilrhedyn Bridge and Sychpant. Good to see a pair of Pied flycatcher visiting a likely nest hole. Tycanol was very quiet and a quick look and listen on Brynberian failed to turn up a cuckoo.
Castlemartin Corse
Hold the front page - Rob Lewis reports a garganey drake today. No photos as yet.
Update from Rob: camera-shy, hides in reeds
Saturday 27 April 2024
Castlemartin Corse
To the Corse this morning to try to catch up on some spring migrants. As usual, wetland birds mostly upstream - 3 Canadas, a pair of greylags, shelduck pair, 6 little egrets, grey heron, a dozen herring gulls and 4 lesser black backs, 2 mallard. Just one snipe on the way through to the hide.
A few hirundines passing the hide - swallows, sand martins, a few house martins. A very few sedge and reed warblers, two white wagtails (♂ and ♀ unless I'm mistaken) just in front of the hide. A single whitethroat was singing from a bramble patch, and to my delight a lesser whitethroat was rattling away in the dense blackthorn scrub by the pines, a spot where I've found them before. Chiffchaffs and willow warblers of course, the latter in the willows in the former decoy ponds by the pines. I heard 5 different Cetti's warblers on my travels. 6 mallard and 1 teal near the hide.
So not bad. No grasshopper warblers singing (but not a great day for it), no repeat of last year's garganey, positively no raptors. Access remains in a deplorable state, the cattle having been driven along the track to which walkers are now confined by the new fencing, resulting in mid-wellie soft mud, as bad as it's been all winter. I would have stood no chance without my walking poles.
Thursday 25 April 2024
Marloes garganey
Two drakes foraging beyond the irrigation pond in front of the Britton hide this evening. Showing really nicely alongside a handful of shoveler and teal.