Cilgelynen

From Alan Mitchener:

M&F Redstarts,

Marsh Tit

F Siskin

Yesterday 30/4 in the rain at Cilgelynen

Whinchat

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

Newport Estuary bridge

 Whimbrel 2 

Common sandpiper 2

Dunlin 4 

Swallow 10

House Martin 4

Marloes Mere

An hour around the mere this evening. 100s of Sand martin feasting on clouds of midges, the duck including the distant drake Garganey were busy supping in the pupae by the look of it as well. With the glut of insects odd there were no obvious wagtails. First Sedge warblers with 3-4 around the mere and a female Whitethroat. The 2 young coot still around, a nesting crow was carrying what looked like a coots egg. Pair Tufted duck, Shoveler 4 pair and 7 male, Teal a pair and a male. Pair Wigeon. Shelduck in Trehills field. 2 Whimbrel. 

Dippers

 The first fledged Dippers of the year along the river at Llanychaer 

Brynberian Moor

 Cuckoo at Brynberian Moor on Saturday afternoon, constantly being harassed by Meadow Pipits.

PWLL Deri Yesterday

Frm Sandra Young:
29+ guillemots and several razorbills seen rafting around
Middle sized island. Many more on smaller island plus Canada goose, gulls mating.
Swallows, martins, kestral, 7 choughs.

28th April Sightings at Llanwnda, Goodwick

From David Collins:

Just a couple of things to report from a stroll out with my two children today:

A nearby Cuckoo saw us before we saw it, but we still had decent views of it in flight and then landing on a fairly distant wooden post.

We also saw a total of 15 female Wheatears in two small neighbouring paddocks.

Pengelli forest

Pied flycatcher 4 males 1 female 

Redstart male 

Blackcap 5

Chiff chaff 10

Tree creeper 4

Nuthatch 4

Buzzard 2

More Gwaun

A beautiful spring day in the Gwaun and getting warm on the south-facing slopes in the afternoon - a bit further west than Brian's location -  revealed a pair of Pied Flycatchers. Nearby was a male Redstart that was much more flighty than the showy male pied. On the river were two pairs of Dippers. The flora was looking impressive too with wild garlic in full flower.

Gwaun

A cracking day in the Gwaun with Paul checking some of the woodlands. Nice to have 5 Pied flycatcher and at least 3 Redstart between Cilrhedyn Bridge and Sychpant. Good to see a pair of Pied flycatcher visiting a likely nest hole. Tycanol was very quiet and a quick look and listen on Brynberian failed to turn up a cuckoo.

Castlemartin Corse

Hold the front page - Rob Lewis reports a garganey drake today. No photos as yet.

Update from Rob: camera-shy, hides in reeds

Whimbrel - pm of 27th

From Chris Dighton: Single Whimbrel feeding at Goodwick flagpoles this afternoon

Dunlin at Marloes Mere

From mlslb: Dunlin on the afternoon of 27th

Castlemartin Corse

To the Corse this morning to try to catch up on some spring migrants. As usual, wetland birds mostly upstream - 3 Canadas, a pair of greylags, shelduck pair, 6 little egrets, grey heron, a dozen herring gulls and 4 lesser black backs, 2 mallard. Just one snipe on the way through to the hide. 

A few hirundines passing the hide - swallows, sand martins, a few house martins. A very few sedge and reed warblers, two white wagtails (♂ and ♀ unless I'm mistaken) just in front of the hide. A single whitethroat was singing from a bramble patch, and to my delight a lesser whitethroat was rattling away in the dense blackthorn scrub by the pines, a spot where I've found them before. Chiffchaffs and willow warblers of course, the latter in the willows in the former decoy ponds by the pines. I heard 5 different Cetti's warblers on my travels. 6 mallard and 1 teal near the hide. 

So not bad. No grasshopper warblers singing (but not a great day for it), no repeat of last year's garganey, positively no raptors. Access remains in a deplorable state, the cattle having been driven along the track to which walkers are now confined by the new fencing, resulting in mid-wellie soft mud, as bad as it's been all winter. I would have stood no chance without my walking poles. 

Marloes garganey

 Two drakes foraging beyond the irrigation pond in front of the Britton hide this evening. Showing really nicely alongside a handful of shoveler and teal. 

Hobby over Crundale

A hobby flew west over Crundale at 2030 this evening.