Ramsey Chough and Lapwing

The final late chough nest fledged a few days ago and it has been a record year for productivity. 22 young from 7 pairs - 3.14 per pair (the...

Herring Gulls

It looks like all the seabirds are doing well this year - an early season and lots of big Shag and Cormorant chicks (Shag success on Midland...

Stack Rocks Rock

Wonderful conditions at Stack Rocks this evening with the evening light shining onto the Guillemot colony and a strong breeze for them to fl...

Swifts

Nine Swifts in and out of two holes in two houses at Maes Curig ,Newport. Karen

Skomer at full blast

A great trip to Skomer today on a warm, sunny day. Puffin activity really at full blast with birds returning with bills full of Sandeels - I...

A thing of beauty !

The first Adult Med. Gull back at the Flagpoles earlier , with 2 1st summer birds , one sporting a green colour ring unfortunately just too ...

More from the North

Newport;- 17:00 the 1st juv Black-headed Gull I've seen this post breeding season. Teifi ;- St. Dogmael's Quay, 77 Curlew, 1 juve...

Tenby Terns

From David Perry - 6 Common Terns fishing off Tenby South Beach, likewise a pair of Gannets having great fishing. Sunday: 2x kestrel on Cas...

More signs of autumn....

The first returning willow warbler of the autumn appeared last week, plus 4 today. 30 swift heading south over the past 2 days.

Black-headed Gulls

Black-headed Gulls breed in Ceredigion, so not far away. Last recorded breeding in Pembrokeshire in 1970.

City news

A bit on the quiet side just now, but Grasshopper Warblers are still reeling on Trefeiddan and on the track down to Pencarnan we saw Lesser ...

Looks like autumn could nearly be here

Lots of Scoter (males) passing between Ramsey and Grassholm today and yesterday, also small groups of Sandwich terns, lots of Puffins, Manxi...

Gann this morning - questions

A surprise - about 25 Whimbrel feeding enthusiastically. Echoing RDs post of a few days ago, going or coming? I would hazard a guess that wi...

At Holyland Wood, Pembroke - is it plane? is it a bird? No its quite a nice butterfly plus a bumblebee relatively new to Pembrokeshire

Today, after doing a training event with Pembroke 21c, we ventured down to Holyland Wood where, earlier in the summer, we had recorded bird...

Autumn already on Skomer?

At least 1 Common Sandpiper calling in the rain in North Haven a few minutes ago

Med. Gulls Flagpoles

Med. Gulls , 4 1st Summer birds at 17.30 & 5 very noisy adult Sandwich Terns on the very quick dog walk due to the conditions.( but all ...

Quail

One Quail still in the barley. Didn`t hear any more calling while I was there. Heard @12:20 along with skylark,yellowhammer,and feeding sand...

Caldey

More on yesterday's Herring Gull ringing / productivity later...but 10 Turnstones on the south of the island. On a late May visit SJS ha...

Quail

Up here, in very quiet Nth. Pembs , two Quail were heard this morning in barley fields close to Pantgwyn. On checking this evening,with Kare...

Red Kite

Yesterday, around 5pm, 1 bird above the Sandy Haven/Rickeston area.

Newport Tues pm

5 Whimbrels over. Coming or going?

Starlings

A very quiet Teifi at the moment, still very few juvenile Shelduck about... Following the news from The City, 10 Starlings came in to roost ...

Butterfly Recorders in Pembrokeshire

As we enter that time of year when the birding scene quietens down for a few weeks many birders turn their attention to other flying creatur...

City news

All it took was a bit of bright sunshine to transform one of our resident Starlings into a real bobby dazzler. They usually breed in the nei...

South Pembs choughs; quail nr Hayscastle and a plea for owl breeding records

Noted recent comments about choughs fledging on Ramsey etc. So far the season appears not so rosy on the Limestone in south Pembs . Of jus...

Hedgehopping and flying high...

Over the past few days all sorts of our resident birds have been fledgeing their young with Goldfinches Greenfinches, Bullfinches and House ...

Chough and Dartfords

News from Bethan Evans of Dartford Warbler sightings at two locations in the north of the county yesterday. This morning I had brief views o...

2 Spoonbills @ Marloes Mere

2 today, news from Mervyn.

Little Egret - Skomer

1 In North Haven, Skomer, 06:40 this morning. (Dave B)

Brynberian Whinchat

A look at a different part of Brynberian Moor for a change this afternoon was rewarding. Accessing the moor from SN120 351 near Crosswell an...

The Teifi -- Med. Gull

Today;- Sanderling, Ringed Plover & Dunlin all present in front of the Webley... the best count of 3 Sanderling made from a passing boat...

Pembrokeshire Bird Report 2010

A reminder that the 2010 Pembrokeshire Bird Report is now out and what better way to spend a miserable,rainy day than leafing through the re...

The Teifi to Senegal

This evening on Patch, 2 nice summer plumage Sanderling, 2 Dunlin, and 7 Ringed Plover. Still 7 juvenile Shelduck at Jewsons. Observations o...

St Govan's

A male Wheatear with two fledged young at St Govan's this morning. No sign of the female - perhaps busy with a second brood? Otherwise p...

Ramsey Lapwing and Chough

In response to the below....just 2 pairs again this year. Both failed with first attempt (as usual) but both pairs look to have relaid. They...

Kilpaison

1 pair of Lapwings trying hard to raise young in a bund, are there any on Ramsey ? 1 1st summer Common Gull on the shore, and an adult Ganne...

Ramsey chough

First young fledged on 12/6 (4 from that site) plus another 2 sites yesterday (3 and 2 young resp) - another 3 sites still to go.

European Bee-eater -- Skomer

West over Skomer, 1545 this afternoon......... (Ben Sheldon Matt Wood.....& Dave B)

Newport

4 Gannets fishing close to the shore, 2 Swifts, 3 pairs of Shelduck still without young (or that I have'nt seen yet).

Teifi, Puffins and thoughts

Teifi;- Some typical mid June counts, 2 Dunlin, 34 Oystercatchers, 23 Curlew, 25 Black- headed Gulls all roosting along the Pembs side. The ...

Marloes Mere

Following yesterday`s encouragement from Wendy & Richard, I hauled myself out to the Mere in some inclement weather. Quiet. Just a few ...

Godwits -- Marloes Mere

Watch this place !! 4 Black-tailed Godwits, at least 2 of the birds in full summer plumage, (the other 2, we were looking into the sun !) Th...

Stack Rocks

Loads of activity at Stack Rocks today with the Guillemots bringing in fish and feeding young. GBB and Herring Gulls trying to find a way in...

Cuckoos

From Helen Aspden - Good view of two cuckoos flying together and calling, across a field near St Davids Youth Hostel, below Carn Llidi.

City News

Down Treginnis way this morning we had both Rock and Meadow Pipits, also a single Red Kite returning from Ramsey and heading back inland.

Yellow Hammers & Red Kite

Seem to be the rarest of birds now, 3 Yellow Hammers at Fenton, (the lane that cuts through from Broadway to Walwyns Castle) this morning. 1...

Rosebush/Pantmaenog

Good views of a Cuckoo by the car park with another calling over by the quarries. Pair of Spotted flycatchers. 2 Redstart families (A pair f...

Newport Fri pm

5 Dunlin, 5 Ringed Plovers & 4 Sanderling + Gloucester landfill Herring Gull Blue BHS for the umpteenth time.

Shelduck / Canada Geese - Skokholm Update

In response to Richard's post... our one Shelduck family dropped from six to four ducklings a few weeks ago, but those four have got pre...

Shelduck .....on the Teifi

A second brood at Jewsons, 5 small ones, the brood of 4 doing well and getting too large to be easy prey. Otherwise a very quiet Teifi, Cana...

Cleddau Osprey

A boat trip up the Cleddau today had as its highlight an Osprey. We found the bird on the Eastern Cleddau around Oxland Wood (SN0213), about...

Below Harbour Village Wdig 8th June.

A recently fledged Phyllosc & one of the Murals that have appeared in the derelict building at the top of the cliff above the Port top e...

The recent Spoonbill

The Spoonbill...surprisingly an adult that was on Skokholm very briefly last Thurs 2nd June. (Tommy Evans)

Bits and bobs

Mullock Bridge: two Bullfinches this morning. I have seen Bullfinches here pretty regularly in recent months: a real treat. Hasguard Cross: ...

Evening Boat Trips to Skomer & Grassholm

Andy Davies, who lives near Marloes and runs the Pembrokeshire Wildlife blog is running boat trips out to Skomer and Grassholm on Thursday ...

Strumble Head (05 Jun 11)

I have been watching an area of set-aside near to Tresinwen all Spring - a site that holds at least two pairs of Groppers and quite a few Se...

Red Kite movement..

There were 16 kites at one point over the garden in Dinas yesterday!! (Natalie Jones)

A weekend on Skokholm

A wonderful long weekend on Skokholm: thousands of auks, Storm Petrels "singing" in the walls and flying around at nights, and lot...

G S Woodpecker

At Colby Lodge a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers drilled a new hole 3ft higher than an existing hole only to nest in the original hole fro...

Two more Kites today!

I saw one moulting kite at a farm near St Nicholas today at about 10 am  and another on the road near Dinas Cross at about 3pm. I also see R...

Red Kites

Sunday, 12.00. Dinas Cross. 10 Red Kites moving west to east fairly quickly over the village, followed by a single bird at 13.30. (Ruth Cr...

Coed Glynaeron in the drizzle

Two cuckoos calling. Redstart and spotted flycatcher catching flies. 3 families of young wrens. A Tawny owl. Hatch of Hawthorn Flies.

Fishguard Harbour

Two Sandwich Terns and a fly-over flock of 14 Ringed Plover this afternoon.

Newport Sun am

And still they keep coming, 2 Whimbrels, 2 Ringed Plovers, 4 Sanderling & 10 Dunlin.

Pengelli (04 June 11)

At least 2 pairs of Pied Flycatchers showing well along with 2 male, 3 female and 1 fledgling Redstart (not showing as well as you can see f...

Fresh out of the nest

Two completely fledged Grey Herons were standing on the edge of the mud at the mouth of the Eastern Cleddau this morning, presumably from th...

More Kites! .

Mid afternoon yesterday, as I was driving down our lane I spotted a Red Kite wheeling above me. Its not that unusual but I had not seen any ...

Kete to Watwick Bay

Whitethroats singing and calling everywhere counted 29 excluding Mill Bay which probably held at least a dozen. 2 skylarks. 5 chough (a pair...

Kites - Ramsey

I've posted a couple of photos of the red kite event on Ramsey on our blog here Sorry about the photo quality but hopefully you get the ...

Red Kites ......moving ... Amazing !!

Amazing numbers of this now annual movement.... 23 (twenty three) Red Kites over Trefeiddan Marsh at 11:00. (John & Marion) 66 (sixty s...

Wildlife Observer Wales "Sea Birds" Course succesfully delivered!

Sea Trust in partnership with Pembrokeshire College successfully delivered our new OCN level 3 nationally accredited Sea Bird course was ...

Spoonbill on Skokholm

One on North Pond briefly around 1.30. Other updates; Ravens have fledged two, four and zero chicks from their three nests. Four large Sheld...

Pantmaenog

3 cuckoos this evening, excellent views of a pair just below Foel Cwmcerwyn being kept on the move by pipits and a third calling down by the...

Newport & area

At the boats: 3 Sanderling, a Whimbrel and c.20 each of Ringed Plover and Dunlin. Pengelli: pair of Pied Flycatchers by the entrance, and a ...