Narberth

When my car refused to start this morning I decided to have a good look around locally, and I don't think I've ever seen such a variety of species in this area (48 seen within a mile of Narberth). Like elsewhere, snipe were obvious, and a party of seven were seen to drop into a town centre garden. So did a buzzard and it flew out with a blackbird and an entourage of agitated jackdaws and magpies. A little egret was at the sewage works, but it looked like it was on it's last legs, just sat there hunched up and doing nothing. The sprinklers were covered in starlngs (and a few snipe), but there were no chiffchaffs or small passerines there apart from a wren. A dozen or so woodcock were flushed mainly from boggy woodland, but two were out on a sunny hedge bank. A steady trickle of lapwings flew west and a few were sat in fields but they weren't feeding. Compared to the earlier freeze, there were considerably more redwings (40+seen today) but only one fieldfare. Other species flying west were common gull, skylark, stock dove and woodpigeon.