Lampeter Vale

The Lampeter Vale is well stocked with mature Hawthorn trees especially along the railway and most years this brings in good numbers of thrushes. This year is no exception and there are now 1000+ Redwings scattered between Whitland and Llanmill. The second most numerous thrush species is Blackbird with a noticeable increase during the last week. Many of the females appear darker and greyer than our residents whilst the males look scallopped with brown feather fringes, and occasionally I see one thats hard to decide what sex it is. There are recent much smaller influxes of Song Thrushes and Fieldfares (twos and threes).
In some unharvested Barley, 38 Stock Doves, 200 chaffinches 3 Bramblings and 12 Reed Buntings and in flooded meadows 10+ Snipe and four Pintail.