Some recent sightings from Robert Smallwood on a short visit to Pembrokeshire - 17 March, 0930: A Chiffchaff singing in the scrub on West Hook Cliffs, Marloes (odd place, but no doubting that song).
17 March, 1230-1300, Cilgerran/Teifi Marshes: No sign of the promised Great Grey Shrike from the Kingfisher Hide, but a dozen or so Sand Martins came in and hawked over the bushes beyond the pool (which seemed rather a nice example of one season replacing another!).
18 March, 1130 (and again 19 March, 1330): The 16 Greenland Whitefronts (last reported on Skokholm, I think) were back on the field just to the west of Trehill Farm, Marloes (with 60 or so Canadas), the neck-ringed bird among them.
18 March, 1200-1300: A Little Gull over the Gann lagoon (from Crabhall gateway); lovely bird, adult coming out of winter plumage, superb dark underwings and wafting flight; by the time we got to the foreshore heavy rain had started and impossible accurately to count a very scattered flock of Brents, but at least 22.
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