Angle

In the bay by the Lodge this afternoon the American Wigeon and the Black Necked Grebe close in as well as 2 Greenshank and 19 Great Crested ...

Diving X Bills

The Crossbills are still present and at Llys Y Fran the Black throated diver goes into the boat house catching Roach. There cannot surely ...

Teifi estuary

Lapwing numbers have built up over the week with at least 1,000 on the sandbanks this afternoon. Also 20 Shelduck, 28 Ringed Plover, 2 Dunl...

spring in the air

Spent a few hours this morning sat around creosoting kestrel boxes at Scolton, and it felt very spring-like with Great Spots drumming and so...

Angle Peninsular & other notes.

Angle bay;- From the Lodge, American Wigeon, Slavonian & Black-necked Grebe. 1 Greenshank from the village, 1 ad. Med Gull, & c14+ G...

St David`s airfield

Ringtail yesterday and again this morning; our regular garden Brambling was joined by another today - could be a portend of some cold wea...

Newport Tues am

Before the rain. c high tide. Highlights included 2 Ad Med Gulls,1 Black T Godwit, a Water Rail at the bottom of Long St.,3 Little Egrets, 5...

Waundwrgi Farm

Walking our patch always makes a pleasant change following several weeks of touring the County's hot spots . 5 Willow Tits, 2 pairs and ...

Diver photos

Lovely pics of the BT Diver Richard - show very clearly the differences with the Pacific, particularly the head/bill profile and the anterio...

Llys y fran

Tried again today for some shots of the Pacific Diver but frustratingly it stayed very much on the far side opposite the hide. The Black Thr...

North Pembs.

28/01/2008 Newport;- Ad. & 2w Med. Gulls, 1 Grey Plover, c20 Dunlin, c20 Ringed Plover, c50 Curlew, 1 Kingfisher, back down to 4 Shelduc...

Angle Bay

Early this P.M. Angle Bay. Western side :- American Wigeon, Slavonian and Black-necked Grebes still present. From Kilpaison , most notable ...

Teifi & Broad Haven

Broad haven, 28/01/2008;- The good looking male Black Redstart still showing in Puffin way. Offshore disappointing, only 1 Rd. Td. Diver of ...

Carew River and Castlemartin Coast 27th Jam

Some 1500 to 2000 lapwings on Carew River at HT roost at New Shipping Point; many clearly ready to migrate (males with resplendent head-dre...

Amroth

At Amroth today in very pleasant birding conditions a Green Woodpecker was calling frequently at the Telpyn end. There was plenty to look at...

North Pembs records -- & Crossbills

Newport:- 2* 1w Med. Gulls, now 11 Shelduck - definitely on the move, 6 little Egrets roosting in tree above bridge, & 18+ Snipe feeding...

Preselis & Llys-y-fran

A nice afternoon out in lovely weather (for a change). 15+ Crossbills at Glynaeron, including several juveniles, some very streaky, others ...

Llys-y-fran

I went to see the divers and the grebe and perhaps it was the fact that they weren't likely to skulk or fly off but this was much more s...

Milford docks

Just passing by when I saw some people feeding the gulls, thinking there could be a Bonapartes gull I stopped to take a look. Alas, only 1 2...

Glaucous Gull -- Newgale & more records Newport

Newgale;- Highlight an ad. Glaucous Gull, the bird seen in flight & flew towards Penycwm. Picked out by Roy Beardsmore, a Haverfordwest ...

Pen Anglas

I saw a Merlin whizz past me in the last light and just miss a Chaffinch which dived into a hedge at 17:00.

Newport Sat pm

3 ad & 1x 2nd W Med gulls, 2 with readable Darvic rings, 1 red, 1 white in a flock of c1000 Black headeds.The 1st Med Gulls I've see...

Visitors from near and far

Today Llys -y- fran was understandably popular with birders from near and far - Southend , Cambridge, Manchester and many from our own tri...

North Pembs

Saturday 26th Jan. Quite a few twitchers at Llys y fran this morning - both Divers and BN Grebe were showing well - the Black-throated start...

Divers

Llys-y-fran Resr. this am;- Jon G. is there this am, Pacific well up the arm past the hide. (he says "swimming to Rosebush"). Blac...

Llys-y-fran resr.

25/01/2008, dusk;- Pacific Diver showing at far end well beyond hide, also 2 Willow tits there. Black-throated Diver, mobile but showing wel...

Kicked out of the forest

Of interest to those of you who like to roam the forest tracks, you may be interested to learn while we where walking on the old railway tra...

Rosebush via Llys-y-fran

Having dipped on the Great Grey Shrike yesterday (it had been present) we gave it another go early today. First up, first winter male Scaup...

Pacific Diver etc.. at Llys-y-fran resr.

25/01/2008;- This morning a visit first thing;- Black-necked Grebe near the point, the Pacific Diver just beyond the hide. The Black-throate...

Divers / Snipe

Very instructive pics of the Black-throated Diver Richard - it would be brilliant to get both birds in the same frame. From the separate pi...

Fortunes Frolic

Fortunes Frolic, 24/01/2008;- 31 Teal, 1 Greenshank, 2 Redshank. Paul G.

Red Kites

Red Kites -- We received a report of a Red Kite carrying a twig as if nesting material, the other day. Talking to Paddy, the adult kites are...

Llys y fran Divers

At last a sunny day to get some photos of the Divers at Llys y fran! As luck would have it it was the Black Throated which came closest but ...

Divers, Grebe & Shrike at Llys-y-fran.

24/01/2008 until 1200;- Pacific Diver, showing v.well above hide. Black-throated Diver showing well but mobile. -- both divers were together...

Snipe

We were looking at the lists of species recorded on the atlas website, and found Wilson's snipe had been seen in SM92. If you type in co...

Pacific Diver

Pics on Birdguides & Sufbirds http://www.birdguides.com/pictures/default.asp?search=1&rty=3&v=0&off=159706 http://www.surfbi...

Great Grey Shrike & Divers at Llys-y-fran Resr.

Llys-y-fran Resr. 23/01/2008;- Pacific Diver generally seen from hide area but mobile; has been seen this am from the hide with the Black-Th...

Westfield Pill

22nd January. 12.30p.m. At the old mill bridge looking upstream from the foot bridge, we watched 2 possibly 3 Otters fishing for some time, ...

Goodwick Moor - Firecrest

I saw one under the steps on the embankment in a gap in the rain at 13:45.

Llys-y-fran Divers & Grebe.

22/01/2008, Llys-fran Resr.;- This pm 1430-1530 when rain & v.poor visibility stopped play. The Black-throated Diver, very close to the ...

Llys-y-fran today

Interesting message this morning from Ted Abraham at BirdlineWales (thanks Ted) who got the information from RBA pagers: Pacific Diver, Blac...

Fishguard Harbour --Divers

21/01/2008; Fishguard Harbour;- 1 Gt.N.Diver, c4 Red Td. Diver, & 1 Blk. Thd. Diver(Steve B.) 1 Ad. Med Gull (Cz.) 9 Ringed Plover. FBG ...

Monthly Round Up

The Monthly Round Up for December is now on line - see link to the right. Thanks to Jon Green for putting the information together.

Pacific Diver

Still present today in the driving rain from the hide 3pm-4pm, ranging about 1oom below to 200m above the hide (usually above). Poor visibi...

Out of the county -- & dipped!

Glamorgan, Ogmore est.; - 1w Little Gull, c5 Med. Gulls- of 3 diff. ages. No sign of the hoped for ad. Bonaparte's Gull.! Served us rig...

Sunday 20th Jan

I've put together the Dec. e-mail as Lyndon is taking a break for a bit (are thoughts are with him at present) - a slightly different fo...

Newport

Newport;- 0830, 3 Little Egrets roosting together on mud together, passage birds? only seen 1 recently. By 0900 gone somewhere! No gulls t...

Goodwick Moor

Firecrest & Chiffchaff seen this pm.(Adrian R)

N. Pembs. & Newgale Marsh

Newport;- 1 un-ringed Ad. Med Gull & 145 Common Gulls, amongst the mainly Black- Headed at 900. Fishguard;- No sign of Cz Med Gull this ...

Llys y Fran Resr

As Richard said I found the Pacific Diver around 11.00 right at the far end, and yes, it was worth the trek through the mud and horizontal r...

Newport-Med Gull 5PO -- Pacific Diver

Newport 1100;- Still plenty of gulls to challenge the interested. c90 Common Gulls noted. Best bird so far, ad Med. left leg, red ring 5PO....

American Herring Gull

If anyone is interested in a detailed response from a gull expert friend of mine to the interesting gull photo posted by Nathan please click...

Soggy Llangloffan Fen 17th January

The Cleddau has flooded across the fen this week, creating a classic winter wetland scene with sheets of water in the floodplain valley mire...

Dartford Warbler

I saw one in an area of coastal heath in the north of the county at 13:30 and at 16:00 the spectacular aerial display of a pair of Peregrine...

Newport Thurs Afternoon

No sign of the Spoonbill.Still huge numbers of gulls though I found nothing unusual.87 Curlew, 35 Dunlin,17 Ringed Plovers, 13 Redshank &am...

Llys-y-fran, -- Pacific Diver & B. N. Grebe

Llys-y-fran Resr;- This afternoon's visit to the resr. produced the Diver, as was it's habit's last winter, at this time of day ...

Pacific Diver & Iceland Gull

Llys-y-fran Resr.; Dave A. beat me to the resr. and the bird this morning, see Dave's posting below.Bird diving continuously until I le...

Pacific Diver at Llys-y-fran

Present this morning from the hide, then gradually moved further north up the reservoir. Definitely a Pacific - it has a cracking throat-st...

Newport - p.m.

Spoonbill - imm. seen from boat club this afternoon; disturbed by walkers it flew up the valley. Red-throated Diver & Great Crested Greb...

Diver sp? at Llys-y-fran Resr.

Llys-y-fran Resr;- A Diver showing features & behaviour that suggest it is the returning bird from last winter; which was identified as ...

N.Pembs --this am.

Newport;- imm Spoonbill moving around the boat Club, --12 Turnstone. Ad. & 1w Med. Gulls from the Bridge,- amongst c1000 gulls, mainly B...

Red Necked Grebes too

Mick Brown left a message for me today to say he had 2 Red-necked Grebes in Tenby Harbour area this morning.

Goodwick Moor

I was looking for owls by the time it stopped pouring with rain up this way, but this was at least rewarded with a Barn Owl lit up under the...

Outdoor Meeting Sunday

Due to unforseen circumstances the Pembrokeshire Bird Group's outdoor meeting scheduled for this Sunday, 20 January, has been cancelled....

Castlemartin & Angle

With an unexpected lull in the deluge I went to Castlemartin to do my Webs and was rewarded with 2 Greylag Geese on the Corse from Castlemar...

Spoonbill --Newport

The Spoonbill was roosting nr. the Boat Club at high - tide late morning, then flew to the end of the sand dunes & fed along the tidelin...

Cz Med.Gull

The Czech & 1 other ad. Med.Gull in Fishguard Harbour tonight.(Adrian R.)

Smicker???

I saw this "herring group" gull with what looks to me like quite a lot of "freckles" fly west over Carregwastad at 15:30...

Dipping!

Newport;- no sign of the Spoonbill, but v.high tide & poor weather! Feindre;- no sign of the Firecrest, poor weather! Ceredigion;- No si...

Castlemartin peninsula 12/1

Webs counts and tetrad ( TTVs ) before rain set in, highlights were merlin , peregrine, goshawk 2 (ad male, juv male), chough 15, black r...

Bird Race -- a quick summary

Pembs. Winter Bird Race 4 teams comprising 14 individuals took part. Jon G. will provide full statistics when he has received full details ...

Hooded Crow & Firecrests

A Hooded Crow late morning with Rooks in fields near St Davids Youth Hostel. Also 2 Firecrests early morning at inner south gate Heathfield GP.

Friday-more records/notes.

Fishguard Harbour;- The Cz ad. Med. Gull present,(Paul G.) Please note this bird if you see it, it could depart any day--never stayed past J...

Spoonbill at Newport

Juvenile Spoonbill. Apparently present since yesterday (Thurs). Richard D has seen it & thinks it is probably the Teifi bird. This pm wa...

Water Pipit & Iceland Gull

Newgale Marsh;- 1200 today 1 Water Pipit with Rock & Meadow Pipits on flooded campsite.(Paul G.) Yesterday;; Fishguard Harbour, Flagpole...

Albinistic Blackbird

They are mutations and do follow through successive generations before dying out all together. So yes, they are probably related to each other.

Pied Blackbird

I took this picture of a Pied Blackbird at Westfield Pill on 2nd Jan 2006. I did use it as part of the 2006 Bird Diary at the conference. I ...

Pied Blackbird Westfield Pill

Not seen any other reference to this bird, so if it is common knowledge, my apologies! While colour sports such as Pied Albino and Leucistic...

Bird Race Birds ??

9 species seen yesterday--will we find any of these on Sat's Bird Race.-- in Pembs.? 2 Marsh Harriers-- Cley. 2 Egyptian Geese-- Cley. 1...

Northern Headlands

I saw a Merlin overhead being blown about all over the place at Pen Anglas at 15:00 and there was a Purple Sandpiper down on the rocks at Pe...

Corner Piece

Managed a quick visit this afternoon and the three Little Egrets were still in the field at Corner Piece - looks a good spot for a Cattle Eg...

The Bird Race

It is really too much to expect records of all species seen/heard to be recorded to tetrad or possibly even 10 km square level. However, pe...

Carregwastad

I saw my first good bird of 2008 today, it wasn't the mythical Cattle Egret but among the 90+ regular auks that flew west past the headl...

January Bird Race 2008

Good luck to all those attempting this year's bird race next Saturday. Please remember the rules: 3 out of the 4 must see / hear and agr...

The search continues....

Paul G and I had a bit of a tour round today, zigzagging from H'west to Goultrop Road, up the coastal strip to Newgale, and then inland ...

Cattle egrets - just a thought!

A possible location to consider are fields in the upper reaches of Eastern Cleddau . One such heavily cattle-poached pasture regularly attr...

Misc weekend tetrad-bashing highlights

In south Pembs on Sat 5 th Jan., green sandpiper at a small flooded pool nr Manorbier Newton; good numbers of winter thrushes - fieldfar...

Teifi and inland

The Spoonbill was still opposite the quay this morning with 2 Bar T Godwits and c 100 Lapwing. Driving around the lanes inland in the Moning...

St.Davids Airfield

Ringtails almost daily this week, also 2 Short-eared Owls hunting on Thursday. Today a flock of about 100 Lapwings and 18 Golden Plovers p...

The search

Spent yesterday (Saturday) driving down lanes etc between St Dav's and Strumble Head but no luck

American Wigeon & more from to day

The American Wigeon showing well off Kilpaison this pm. Also 33+ Knot. On our wander in search of any inland egrets, we came across 100'...

Bird Race

Have spoken to Jon Green and agreed that the New Year Bird Race next Saturday (12th) will finish at 5:30pm at the pub at Newgale. No set sta...

Nice northern Chiffchaff

I did a quick trip down to Monk Haven to see if the Firecrest was still about and I coulnd find anything but on the filter beds in the Sewer...

Ringtails

Having gravitated as far west as I could in my "quest", I found myself on the coast path south of Martinshaven, just past Rath cot...

Spoonbill on the Teifi

At c900 the Spoonbill flew into the river behind Jewson's & started feeding vigourously! 2 Sanderling & 2 Bar-tailed Godwits f...

Spoonbill & "White Crow"

Teifi;- Spoonbill still present, feeding at 1620 from St.Dogmael's quay. Ceredigion "White Crow";-- No suprise that three of u...

The Quest continues.......

Spent some 3hrs searching between Blacbridge pill & the Gann today, from Sandyhaven to Walwins castle, criss -crossing the lanes in bet...

The search for the mystical Egret of Cattle...

As Richard reports, Ceredigion now has a Cattle Egret. Even Cheshire has two! They are also scattered from Cambridgeshire south and west t...

Spoonbill & the North

Teifi;- 1610 Spoonbill present opp. St. Dogmael's Quay at high tide. Also 1 Bar-tail Godwit, c30 Redshank feeding, & 1 Little Egret,...

Spoonbill on the Teifi

Spoonbill feeding opp. St. Dogmael's quay at 0830, Gt. Ctd. Grebe feeding off Poppit. Newport Golf Club;- 200 Golden Plover & 20 Lap...

Minwear/Canaston/Toch woodland areas 2/1/08

In the shelter of a forest ride (a regular feeding area for pheasants) there were good numbers of woodland birds feeding on crushed oats - i...

1st and 2nd of January

1Jan 2008 At the Dowrog Common - 2xHen harrier both ringtails, 1xShort eared owl, 1xBarn owl, 1xMerlin, 1xSparrow hawk and 2xKestrel 2 Jan 2...

Marloes Peninsular 29-30 December

apologies for the late posting, happy New Year to everyone Wooltack Point/Martin’s Haven 7+ Guillemots feeding just north of the point. 30+ ...

Spoonbill & the North

The Teifi Spoonbill present opp. St. Dogmael's Quay, until 1600 at least. This pm 1 Common Sandpiper on the far bank too. Newport Bay;- ...

New Years Day bashing tetrads in N Pembs

Some 70+ species logged - from tetrad bashing, mainly in NE Pembs , including red kites, peregrine, raven, nice flock of 25+ stock doves, d...

New Years Day

Llanstadwell: 1st-W Yellow-legged Gull, and a Rock Pipit possibly of the Scandinavian subspecies (large bill, obvious yellow lower mandible)...

Teifi late afternoon

The Spoonbill was feeding busily at 3.30pm. It was on the sandbank just downstream of St Dogs quay with c1000 Lapwing, 5 Knot and 14 Shelduck.

Broadhaven, Sandyhaven, the Gann

Broadhaven c 60 Common scoter, 1 Gt/N/Diver, Blackredstart at Puffin way. Sandyhaven Much the same as yesterday, except 7 Med Gulls, 3*ad, 2...

Teifi Estuary

Spoonbill still presnt from slipway but as usual asleep wigeon 100+ Common Gull 10+ Curlew 10 Redshank 2 Hope all have a great new year

Spoonbill on the Teifi

The Spoonbill was feeding fast & furious at 0830, quite unusual! By 0930 back to sleep, are all birds with spoon-billed bills such effic...