Stackpole area

Not too much migration going on but small wader movement most days - including ringed plovers, greenshank, green sand, whimbrels and curlews. Swifts still active around cliff-nest sites and also around Pembroke and Carew - breeding a bit later this year?

Good population of four-spotted footman at Stackpole this year (e.g. female image plus plainer greyish males) noted resting on nettles and other woodland edge vegetation from late July onwards. This distinctive large footman moth species may be moving north so watch out!

Immature green woodpecker(s) have been noted well into the Castlemartin Range for the first time in several years. We assume these are dispersing Stackpole yng (two broods fledged this year) but of course they may be from elsewhere. The key question is - if these birds are isolated but hanging on on the Castlemartin peninsula, either they must be quite long-lived or else they must be able to disperse some distance for the gene-pool to be kept topped up! Or are there more breeding in Pembs than are currently reported?

Yellowhammers, another declining species, have definitely been helped by coastal cereal crop subsidies this year - breeding along Fresh East to Manorbier areas and hanging on nr Stackpole. Stock Doves also probably breeding in woodland on edge of Stackpole Warren - first I've seen/heard here for a decade or more.