Birding at Strumble

I spent most mornings last week sea-watching at Strumble Head and here are some bird sightings. As you would gather the winds all week were southerly or south westerly.

26/9/10 - 08.00-11.30- Scoters 6 male, 2 female. 2 red-throated divers.
27/9/10 - 0800-11.00 - Scoters 39 male, 8 female. 1 black-throated diver, 9 manxies grouped together going S/SW. 4 blue tits!
28/9/10- Interesting cetacean activity drew my attention away from the birds (see 'Whales in Wales' blog entry) there were hoards of gannets during all this cetacean activity. Had 1 'bonxie' but that has been previously logged on here.
29/9/10 08.00- 11.30 - Scoters 68 male 52 female. 2 Balearic shearwaters, 4 wheatear.
During an afternoon walk to St Davids Head I saw a hunting male kestrel, 2 pairs of stonechat. 1 porpoise seen offshore.
30/9/10- 08.00 -11.30 - Scoters- 41 male, 16 female. 2 red-throated divers. 1 kestrel, 2 black terns, 1 sandwich tern, pair of stonechat near the building. Good passage of swallows which were coming from seaward.
12.30hrs at the flagpoles- 1 kingfisher on the rocks to the far right, 1 redshank, 1 juvenile wigeon which had teamed up with a duck mallard!
1/10/10 - 08.00- 11.30- Scoters 14 male 12 female. 4 manxies, 1 wheatear, 4 wigeon (1m 3 f), 1 pomarine skua (confirmed by other visiting birders). 3 common and 1 black tern which was attacked by the large juv (female?) peregrine! This peregrine was present on all the days I was at Strumble and made the occasional foray out to sea. At around 10.25am there was a bit of an altercation between this bird and a small falcon which I don't think was a parent bird. This falcon was smaller, pale underneath, slender winged and disappeared high into cloud cover with rapid wing beats in tight circles I'm only guessing here but I thought it might have been a hobby which was hunting swallows which were moving through at this time.
An afternoon walk on the Parrog produced some nice birds resting on the rocks- 18 ringed plover, 1 turnstone, 1 sanderling, 1 curlew and a wheatear.
1 common sandpiper on the Afon Nyfer near the bridge.