Off St Davids peninsula and Castlemartin area

A telephone report from John Rogers (well described) of a Bonxie seen from St David's peninsula (about 1/2 km south of Ramsey) on Sunday 16th Aug.

At about mid-day on Frainslake on 18th Aug, at least 500-700 lesser black-backs and 50+ great black-backs were roosting on the beach (typical numbers that gather there at this time of year) . Later in the day possibly many of the same birds plus a few hundred herring gulls were resting and feeding on ants/soil/grassland inverts above the cliffs at Linney Head (total flock size in excess of 750). This is quite normal feeding activity by gulls here.

Waders on Frainslake beach included several ringed plovers, sanderling, a few dunlin and knot plus 20 or so oycs and curlew - typical species and numbers for this time of year.

Chough numbers still seem quite low but a flock of 12 over the Burrows and scattered pairs along the coast.

Among a number of invertebrates recorded a few clouded yellow butterflies were on the move through the burrows during the morning.