Narberth Kite

Yesterday, as I balanced atop a ladder, roller in hand, applying a final coat of paint to my house in Narberth , a Kite held station above m...

S Pembs choughs - a poor season but an incomplete picture so far

Noted Greg's chough summary for Ramsey. It is still a little too early to determine the outcome in South Pembs because access is not yet...

Fishguard Harbour 30th June

2 Med. Gulls , 2nd Sum & 1st Sum from flagpoles at 3.30 p.m. They then flew to Ferry Terminal side at approx 4p.m.

Ramsey - Chough

With all sites now fledged I can report a good year for Ramsey chough, bucking the trend of the mainland it would seem. 17 young from 7 nest...

Dinas

We had a nice mooch around Dinas Island this morning, and had the usual Peregrine, Chough and a few Stonechats, but the bird of the day was ...

returning birds....

Just to let you know that there were 6 Black headed Gulls in Llangwm Pill last Tuesday morning (22nd June) and this morning (29th June) ther...

Open-fronted nest-boxes

I have to generally agree with Paddy, depending on location and how managed they can be rather too open to predation. Spotted flycatchers et...

Spotted Flycatcher boxes

We did have one of these used (successfully) in 2007. It is open-fronted but quite wide and the roof overhangs at the front to keep the rain...

Nest boxes

The only time that I've ever seen a small open fronted nest box actually used is when it was left in a garage on a shelf and used by a p...

Teifi -- Med Gull, Common Sand... & juveniles

Jewsons;- 1 Common Sandpiper, 6 B H Gulls, including the 1st juvenile of the year here. Creches of 11 & 6 juvenile Shelduck. St. Dogmael...

Newport

Last night;- c20 Swifts over the town / river and 7 Curlew at the estuary. (Karen)

Flagpoles & Nestboxes

This week although i've had quite limited time to visit the flags the gradual return of black Headed Gulls is starting , up to 6 today ...

On a pretty eventful Sea Trust Ferry Survey with four species of cetacean recorded, there was plenty of sea bird interest as well with at le...

Bosherston Otter

Otters at Bosherston still showing well - photo from Elwyn Davies.

Skomer

Yesterday, a couple of juvenile Grey Herons, and 15 Starlings over,---the start of post breeding movements!! The breeding season appears to ...

Angle peninsula

A walk from West Angle to Fresh West, to record chough breeding activity was a rather unproductive one. A pair with 2 juvs were spotted almo...

North Pembs

Newport;- This evening, a few juvenile Grey Herons by the bridge, presumably from Felindre? 5 Curlews & 7 juvenile Shelduck. Teifi;- 13 ...

Cross? pretty pleased actually

Woke up this morning and as my bleary eyes took in the view from my window I noticed a finchy thing atop of a dead willow in the garden, sur...

Summer Stunners

Yesterday morning at a site in the south of the county I had fine views of a pair of Dartford Warblers which have bred successfully. Final p...

Stack Rocks --- (Sunday)

Echoing some other sightings, there were a number of Dark Green Fritillaries at both Stack Rocks and at St Govans on Sunday 20th. Also a Qua...

Still singing .......

A Lesser Whitethroat belting it out from the bushes on the far side of the stepping stones at the Gann yesterday, and a Grasshopper Warbler ...

tegryn

There are plenty of recently fledged youngsters in the garden & this weather must be doing them some good. This Gt-Sp appeared in the ga...

Hooded Crow ...........&............

Skomer;- 1 Hooded Crow over the farm this morning, it attracted the attention of the locals and appeared to pass through the island. (Dave B...

Some fritillaries

Yesterday at St Davids Hd lots of Dark Green Fritillaries, well 12+ in a small area, which was beyond my previous experience of the species,...

Angle Bay & Stack Rocks (19 Jun 10)

Raven showing very well on Angle beach but other than Oystercatchers and Curlew no other waders. Stack Rocks very busy!

White Falcon

Admiring the Gannets fishing this morning at Marloes sands, a white bird flew across my field of view - for a second or two I thought it wa...

Gateholm -- white falcon

Derek has just rang, he has just had a white falcon around Gateholm -- off the Marloes Peninsular.

Quail ...........

On Tuesday (15th) I was delighted to hear Quail calling on Brawdy Airfield alongside the main runway and shortly after saw two jump out of a...

Swifts

8-10 Swifts at Crosswell pm today at the bridge and small chapel, a usual site. 2 at Eglwyswrw yesterday possibly from the same group.

Rosebush Swifts

We have just been camping at Rosebush for a few nights, all the better to do our northern county tetrads, and have been fascinated to share ...

A Castlemartin Corn Bunting??

The following interesting email arrived today from Prof. Gareth Jones, Bristol. Gareth is a regular visitor to Pembs with students studying ...

fledgeling time!

Whitethroats have bred successfully in my garden at least 6 young. Actually saw a Swift fly by the garden yesterday evening fast and low f...

Breeding Summer visitors

Whinchats;- No birds appear to be present on the lower area of Brynberian Moor, or Carn Ingli. Birds seen today, on the upper slopes of Bryn...

Hare today gone ...

Having spent quite a while in Berkshire Wilts etc where Hares were incredibly numerous and also men with lurchers , I was told and it seemed...

Hare

Mark - About five years ago I discovered a hitherto unknown population of hares just south of Tegryn - the one I actually saw went hell for ...

Hare

I was very pleased to see a hare within a mile of Tegryn village this a.m. I have not seen them in this area before (in 20+ years), so eithe...

Tell tale Swallows! splashy Tystie...

After an early and unsuccessful look for dolphins off Fishguard Harbour, I returned home and made a cup of tea. Sitting in the garden and ...

Martin's Haven fledglings

Starting to be very good numbers of young passerines around, especially Linnets. The big surprise of the last 2 days has been the number of ...

E&W Cleddau

Eastern Cleddau at Gelli: 4+ Swifts, Dipper, Kingfisher (the first I have seen on either river this year). No sign of reported Hobby to 211...

Kestrel

1 male, over the Dragon LNG teminal at Waterston around midday.

Teifi

CES ringing;- Session 5 on Sunday almost matched last year's totals of juveniles/ adult ratio across all species caught. A couple of pie...

Pelagic Boat Trip

Sea Trust are running a Cetacean Survey trip on the Cartlett Lady this Sunday 20 June starting from Neyland Marina at 9 a.m. back between 5 ...

Dartford Warblers

I saw an adult feeding a juvenile at the coastal site in the north of the county at 12:30.

Bird Report 2009

Just a reminder that the 2009 Pembrokeshire Bird Report has now been published and is available from Jon Green. Click on the Bird Report Lin...

Today on Ramsey

Whilst on Ramsey today leading a guided walk up popped what I am very sure sure was a Richards Pipit as indeed was the only bird watcher in...

Marloes Mere - Iberian Chiffchaff?

A visiting birder heard 2 bursts of song from the Britton Hide today that he was pretty confident sounded like Iberian Chiffchaff (remember ...

Lingering waders

Kilpaison:- 1 Whimbrel this morning. Teifi:- Patch, 11 Dunlin, & 7 Ringed Plover last night.

Turtle Doves

On a different topic, with the advent of web sites I have noticed that there are a surprisingly large number of Turtle Dove records from Wel...

Pied Flycatcher behaviour.

Regarding the recent post on Pembs Birds mentioning a second possibly immature male Pied Fly helping at a nest, please see Welsh Birds 2003,...

small & slate grey............

Skomer;- A small slate grey sylvia, disappearing into the bracken, Dave has doubts that he will see again, suspects Subalpine............but...

Pengelli -- Blue Tit productivity & ........

This year two plots each of 25 nest boxes have been studied. c3/4 visits have produced the following data;- Plot A;- Of the 25 nest boxes, 7...

A good find........at Strumble.

After finding a likely additonal Cetti's Warbler on Goodwick Moor, Adrian went to Strumble........& was delighted with his find........

Shelduck & Swifts...........Teifi

Patch;- c20 Swifts feeding at c9pm this evening. Jewsons;- Shelduck broods of 4 & 2, also 8 Black-headed Gulls St. Dogmael's Quay;- ...

Puffins

A very good count of 53 puffins on and around the North Bishop this evening. In addition there have been numerous sightings again this year ...

Swifts etc - S Pembs

Matt Lister (NT Stackpole) has reported to me this week that his swifts are back. He noted them breeding last August in the roof of his hous...

Blue Tits

I just opened one of the nextboxes in the garden with the intention of ringing the week old chicks and there was a weasel sitting there very...

House Martins etc

House Martins have at last arrived in Dale and have started nestbuiding - about a month late I guess. They were also late last year. There a...

Swifts gone quick!

Nice to hear MYP had seen swifts up north and WB dolphins etc , these a good deal further north and east I am guessing.... None the less it ...

Bird Atlas

Topical coincidence or what? Today's randomly generated "Bird of the Day" species distribution map is great white egret. An in...

Pen Anglas - Osprey

I was surprised to see a very late one fly east over the point being mobbed by the local gulls at 12:45!

Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers - well where are they then?

It is interesting to know that at least one LSW is still being seen in N Pembs (hopefully breeding!) in a general area they were known from ...

More shelduck family (travellers?) tails

Today at about 0840, a female shelduck and about 5-6 ducklings were hitch-hiking along the edge of the fairly busy A4075, walking quite quic...

Skomer Shelducks

One of the 2 pairs of Shelducks that nest on here have managed to keep all 9 of their chicks alive on North Pond for nearly a week now but i...

Shelducks ,,..........&...

Further to the question about Shelduck broods I spotted an adult pair guiding 12 v. small chicks across Pwllgwaelod Bay early morning, Wed 2...

St Davids Hd pm

A female Redstart (St Davids Hotel) and a Reed Warbler (Bocquer jr). For those interested in Swift sightings: we saw lots at various small t...

Strumble Head 6th June 9 - 11a.m.

10 Puffin 4 Common Scoter Large numbers of Manxies rafting offshore in the murky conditions. A sgl Porpoise with quite a small calf seen.

Shelduck...Teifi & Nevern

Until this morning, no broods of Shelduck had been seen, or that we know of ? We would have expected to have seen a few broods although the ...

Black-headed Gulls..........& .........

Teifi tonight:- 48 Black-headed Gulls just upstream from Priory Bridge. A much larger count than previous years for early June. 1 Kingfisher...

You probably knew but...

For the twitchy types, news from Glamorgan Bird Cub... Blorenge near Abergavenny Marmora,s Warbler - 1sp male showing well and signing, view...

Teifi Marshes & .........

CES ringing this morning:- A total of 79 birds caught this morning, out of the 53 new birds ringed, 36 were this year's juveniles, of wh...

Starlings in St David's

Unusually two newly fledged starlings being fed by an adult in my garden in St David's this morning

Mid pembrokehire section of the WTSWW

The next meeting of the Mid Pembrokehire section of the WTSWW is on Sunday 6th June 2010. Meet 10.30 in the car park near the Church in Bos...

What's in your garden?

The RSPB is keen to find out as much as they can about mammals such as moles, badgers, foxes as well as birds to build up an accurate pictur...

Egrets

Spent all afternoon in the Lawrenny area. No GWE but a total of 12 Little Egrets and at least 8 Whimbrel.

Great White

Early this morning I checked out Lawrenny, Cresswell Quay, West Williamston NR, and Carew MP but without success. These things are notoriou...

Pen Anglas - Hobby

I saw one fly east over the point at 20:30.

Great White Egret

Matt Sutton found a Great White Egret at Cresswell Quay early afternoon (12:40). Thanks to Matt for passing on the news straight away. Sadl...

Another Hobby

A sub ad Hobby today at Coed Glynaeron attracted no doubt by a crowd of Swallows and Swifts feeding along the northern edge of the wood. Als...

Skomer (02 Jun 10)

Lovely day on Skomer today with Short Eared Owls and Little Owls showing well. Spotted Flycatcher showing early morning in the valley at Mar...

Pembroke

Sightings sent in by Barry Potter - P embroke River and surrounding woodland on the north bank. TURTLE DOVE (behind pembroke comp school), N...

Sash's bats

Sounds exactly like Noctules - large, come out fairly early, and their calls are low enough for many people to hear. Close up, their calls ...

Western Cleddau

Another (sewin-less!) visit last night to the stretch of the river opposite Crow Hill. Good numbers of Swifts (20+), which outnumbered all t...

Newport -- waders

07:00 this morning;- 2 Sanderling, 40 Dunlin, 9 Ringed Plover. (Karen)

Swallows & Damselflies

1 Swift over my house in Lawrenny rd. Cresselly, yesterday(monday). Swallows failed in their nesting attempt in my shed last year and have n...

Red Kite

One again over Dreen Hill, Haverfordwest, at 3.45 this afternoon (Steve Hinton).

Caniston Bridge

15-20 swifts flying this evening

Hobby

The Hobby again showing well at Bosherston late afternoon as it hawked for insects near the grassy bridge

Turtle Dove Hayscastle 1st June

While sitting eating my lunch today i was briefly joined by a Turtle Dove which had probably come down to eat some of the spillage of Oats /...

Newport Tues am

On the mud 45 Dunlin, 21 Ringed Plovers & 18 Sanderling. A calling Curlew over. The absence of Swifts has been noted. I've seen 1 (o...

June 1st

It must be June 1st as I see Pembrokeshire CC have "Operation Destroy Bird Nests" at the ready! A council hedge trimmer was parked...

Angle Bay & Strumble (31 May 10)

2 Dunlin, 2 Sanderling and a Bar Tailed Godwit at Kilpaison this morning. 15 Common Scoters past Strumble in evening.

St Margarets Island

Last night a bit of a flying visit to St Margarets to ring Cormorant chicks. An amazing season - loads of 4 egg/chicks nests (I have never s...