First Yellow Wagtail for Pencarnan

Please indulge us just for a moment.

In last week's Pencarnan report we asked,"... does it get any better than this?" Yes it does!

Sunday AM. Our regular circular walk - Pencarnan - Rhossen Farm - St Justinian - Point St John, went like this:-

Camp entrance - 16 Redpoll in isolated conifer together with c12 willowchiffs.
Track to Rhossen - the usual 4 Groppers, Whitethroats, Chiffs and WW all singing and holding territories and now joined by a Sedge Warbler.

Rhossen - Blackcap and a pair of Mistle Thrush feeding young - a new breeding species for this tetrad.

Point St J - our first Swift for this year, then back into the camp, in the horse field, were several Wheatears, and our first spring Yellow Wagtail for Pembs.

Back in the caravan, with smiles on our faces, coffee in hand, a small mixed flock landed on top of The Bush. Included among them were 3 new bush species - Willow Warbler, Wheatear and......wait for it...... a male Whinchat. Zoom that up to 32x and you will understand that it does not get better than that!

Late evening a male Merlin and a little later a female Peregrine shot past the window in hunting mode, and as the light faded a Short-eared Owl popped up onto a post.

P.S. It was very evident that the depression that swept into the south west of Wales on Saturday displaced hundreds of migrant species, particularly Wheatear and Willow Warblers, and we forgot to mention, when the Whinchat dropped onto The Bush it was accompanied by 8 Wheatears. Just for a brief moment our bush, with all these little gems in their smart spring plumage, looked like a Xmas tree.