Angle Area

At Kilpaison this morning as the tide dropped good numbers of birds on the waters edge - 15 Light Bellied Brents including a colour ringed bird (red left leg with letter I, white right leg with letter K), Wigeon 200+, Pintail 4, Shoveller 2, Teal 8, Knot 17, Barwit 36 , Dunlin 300+ , Redshank 8, Grey Plover 1, Curlew 20.
Angle Harbour - 1 Greenshank, 20+ Turnstone, 3 Shoveller. In the bay 6 Great Crested Grebe and a distant Diver sp.
On the rocks at Freshwater West 42 Grey Plover.
Castlemartin Corse was alive with birds - Lapwing 4000+, Wigeon 600+, Shoveller 55, Pintail 2, Tufted 1, Mallard 40, Teal 18, Little Grebe 2, Moorhen 38, Coot 1, Snipe 250+, Woodcock 1, Black Tailed Godwit 9, Curlew 100+, Golden Plover noticable by their absence. Raptorwise, 1 Peregrine, 1 ring tailed Hen Harrier, 2 Sparrowhawks, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel. Small birds - 500+ Skylark, 100+ Linnet and a few Goldfinch and Chaffinch.
Rich C and John Best