While most other folks appear to have headed south, I was heading up to the north of the county. En route, I called in at a number of sites - so will blog a summary of the birds seen that have not been reported earlier.
Yesterday - 13 Pale-bellied Brents at Kilpaison, Dipper on a stream near Tufton, Goshawk displaying at a site in the north of the county, Black Guillemot in s/p in Fishguard Harbour (off the end of the inner breakwater) and three Hen Harriers (male and two females seen in the air together) at the Dowrog roost.
Today - missed the Red-necked Grebe at Cwm-yr-Eglwys, but had two Slavonian Grebes (always close together) in the bay first thing this morning, also four Great Northern Divers at Newgale and three Red-throated Divers and 100+ Common Scoter at Broad Haven.
Away from the coast, I called into the sacrificial bird crop near Camrose - no sign of the Snow Bunting that was there before Christmas, but a flock of 200+ birds still using the site, comprising mostly Chaffinches and Linnets, but also several Bramblings and Reed Buntings, as well as five Stock Doves. Subsequently, there was a Red Kite at Sandyhill and a 1st winter male Scaup on the Millpond in Pembroke.
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