Misc weekend tetrad-bashing highlights

In south Pembs on Sat 5th Jan., green sandpiper at a small flooded pool nr Manorbier Newton; good numbers of winter thrushes - fieldfares, redwings but blackbirds predominated. Searched fields/hedgerows and farmyards for yellowhammers in areas I know they have occurred in winter (between Jameston and Fresh East) but no luck today.

In mid and west Pembs today Sun 6th Jan., kestrels noted in two separate 10 km squares; red-throated and 2 great-n divers in St Brides Bay (off Broadhaven), auks and kittiwake offshore too; good numbers of 3 wintering thrushes right up the coast to St Davids peninsula; water rail in Nine Wells valley but no chiffchaffs seen here. Rain set in shortly after we left St Davids; apart from numerous thrushes in fields, not much more tcould be seen, but approx 70 spp recorded across numerous tetrads in just a few hrs during the day.