Lunchtime today at the Gann. A single Brent Goose, 2 godwits, 2 Greenshanks and half a dozen Whimbrel in the estuary. In the bushes by the car park, 2 singing Greenfinches and a vociferous Lesser Whitethroat ..read more

A walk round the Hook peninsular in yesterday's drizzle gave up: 2 Common Sandpipers in Sprinkle Pill (unusual here), a Common Swift (1st of the year), a Wheatear on Fowborough Point, 4 Whimbrel and a mixed flock of Ringed Plover (18) and Dunlin (35+) on the spit opposite Millin Pill, all bar one of the last in their summer finery ..read more

8 warbler species this morning including blackcap near the church - still no grasshopper warbler. The lesser whitethroat was singing 100m from its earlier location, unless it was a different one. After years of trying I managed some pics of a Cetti's as it surfaced briefly. The morning chiefly memorable for my first dragonfly of the season - a female hairy dragonfly Brachytron pratense hunting along a wet ditch  on the West-Court Farm wet fields.  ..read more

A pale looking ringtail briefly at the mere this evening, unfortunately it was always distant but looked on the small side alongside the owls. 2 Short-eared owls had been quartering the marsh when they put up the harrier, it dashed around anoyed at the interuption before dropping back into cover.  Worth another look tomorrow. Owls put on a brilliant show, one darker bird and one much paler and brighter. I'll add some pictures tomorrow ..read more

  During the springs of  2022/23 rookeries were surveyed across the county by a number of volunteers as a contribution to the Welsh Ornithological Society's Welsh rookery survey. It has taken some time to check all the nest counts from visits to some 400 previously known rookery locations in more than 300 tetrads (2km x 2km squares). Based on maximum nest-counts, a minimum total of 6,679 nests was recorded from 213 occupied rookeries which produced an average of 31.4 nests per rookery. The distribution of rookeries recorded and the distribution of previously known, but now unoccupied ..read more

Three White-fronted Geese overhead. Seen twice today over Pen Caer headland. (Rob Johns ..read more

As a dedicated follower of the weather forecasts, I took the opportunity to visit various sites on the peninsula on the first, and possibly only, sunny day for a while, but only managed Dale airfield, the Gann and Marloes Mere.  Winter migrants were noticeable by their absence with only single pairs of Teal and Tufted Duck and singles of  female Wigeon and male Gadwall. There was no sign or the Goldeneye or Garganey. A pair of Mute Swans were swimming around together and obviously not nesting, but two Canada Geese were at the opposite ends of the mere and may have had partners o ..read more

A very wet visit, but I thought I might find the garganey. The upstream flood meadows were once again under water, though two Canada geese, a pair of shelduck and a mallard the only wildfowl there. Grey heron, little egret, a few herring and lesser black back gulls.... At the hide, a drake garganey, presumably Rob's from the other day, dropped into some vegetation out of sight, but minutes later got up again and flew like a bullet past the hide, no chance of a photo. It could well have settled in the wet area just upstream of the hide which of course is no longer accessible thanks to the new f ..read more

From Alan Mitchener: M&F Redstarts, Marsh Tit F Siskin Yesterday 30/4 in the rain at Cilgelynen ..read more

 A male Whinchat up on Dinas Mountain this morning along with 15+ Wheatears ..read more