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+ Black-Headed Gulls roosting on Jack Sound in slack water. This mirrors similar behaviour that we saw on 14 December involving a far larger number (several hundred) of B-H gulls. They can’t get much time to roost before the current re-starts. Strangely, we did not see any of the larger gulls roosting with them.
Kittiwake: around 10 each adults and immatures feeding actively in the sheltered water north of the point very close in.
Up to 5 Chough seen in a group around the Deer Park
1 Peregrine seen chasing a dove
2 Red-throated Divers flying toward Skomer once the main current from Jack Sound had slowed on 30th.
(Only) 1 Gannet.
5 Shags, 1 Cormorant (seen flying with a Shag, giving an excellent comparison btw the species in terms of size and plumage)
Group of 7 Skylark singing and flying towards Skomer.

Marloes Mere
Flock of c.40 Lapwing seen flying around the area most of 30th December
1 Song Thrush
A very large, noisy and concentrated group of >100 mixed duck at the car park end of the mere. The majority were Teal, with roughly equal numbers of Wigeon and Shoveler, and a few Mallard.
I met Derek G, but missed the ringtail. Interestingly, I had seen a ringtail over the field by the NT car park at Martin’s Haven on both 14 December and 23 November, and a similar bird was reported by friends in the intervening weeks, so this bird could have been around the area for as much as 5 weeks.

The Gann
9 Dabchick
3 male, 4 female Goldeneye
c.20 Teal
1 Shelduck
2 Little Egret
Snipe, Redshank, Curlew, Oystercatcher

Goultrop Roads
30-40 Scoter a (very) long way out towards Broad Haven. It was late in the day so was unable to pick out any Velvets amongst them.