Pembrokeshire Birds - Nature & Animals

Pembrokeshire Birds: Marloes Mere

A windy walk to the Britton Hide yesterday. A lot of duck were probably hidden (no Teal seen!), but 13+ Gadwall felt quite a high number, a...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Green-winged Teal Newport 31/1/25

Finally caught up with this unassuming celebrity yesterday, in its usual location with his eurasian cousins on the river, seen from the iron...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Castlemartin Corse

Water levels still up. Ducks much as before - I didn't attempt count as the bit of open water E of the hide where most were is inaccessible ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: There they were gone!

Last the recent gales had calmed down and yesterday I revisited the site where I had witnessed a communal Red Kite roost a couple of days ag...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Leucistic Blackbird

From Phil Spence: Interesting to see the photo of the Leucistic Blackbird at The Croft,Tenby on the 15th. I attach a photo I took on my iPho...

Pembrokeshire Birds

St Davids  Leucistic Blackbird  Blackbird at St Davids Golf Course Summer 23

Pembrokeshire Birds: The 2025 Heathland Breeding Birds Survey

The BTO and RSPB have recently launched a national heathland breeding birds species survey, some 20 years after the last survey was undertak...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Willow Tits Pantmaenog

Willow tits calling at Pantmaenog this morning, 2 birds possibly 3 feeding with more vocal coal tits. Additionally one male redpoll and sev...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Delayed postings from Steve the Manchester Birder (in Spam)

15th Jan On a quick visit to Tenby this morning looking for any Black Redstarts that I have seen on previous January visits I came across ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Bit of a surprise!

While at a N Pembs site at around dusk on Saturday, I saw a kite coming towards me and then another and another. The first went into a tree ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: SPRING WALK ON THE GANN AND MARLOES MERE

Pembrokeshire Birds: Castlemartin Corse

The upper section below the church held plenty of water but no wetland birds at all apart from two little egrets. A 2CY female peregrine bom...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Dartford Warbler

A female or immature male at Pen Anglas this afternoon.  50 + Common Dolphins off shore.

Pembrokeshire Birds: Ian Bullock

We've had some very sad news (via David Astins) which I (Bob) cannot quite take in, that Ian Bullock (a former RSPB warden of Ramsey, a grea...

Pembrokeshire Birds: North Pembs

From Jack Williams -  Productive day around sites in Pembrokeshire. Goodwick harbour-2 Male Goldeneye, 6 Med gull, 4 kittiwake, 2 Red throa...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Ian Bullock - A Ramsey Stalwart

I would like to echo Bob's sentiments below regarding the very sad news of Ian's passing. Ian was Site Manager (then called Pembrokeshire Wa...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Sandy Haven - caravan park road , and Lydstep

From David Ramsey -  Winter Thrush fest at field by sports ground; 20ish Redwing, 5 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush and Fieldfare. Further down, f...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Red throated diver - Ceibwr Bay

One red throated diver at Ceibwr this afternoon during a chilly WinGS count, also a rock pipit and 2 oystercatchers. 53 herring gulls still...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Fishguard Outer Breakwater

The annual walk around the breakwater, organised by the Wildlife Trust; Mid Pembs Group in conjunction with the Bird Group, took place this ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: The Gann

A cold Easterly wind kept me from loitering for too long, an Eider duck on the high tide river by the footbridge was the only highlight & an...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Minwear matinee murmuration returns! 15-17/1/25

After apparently abandoning the reed bed roost opposite the Minwear woods view point in early December the starling roost is back, but this ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Newport

Green winged teal and water pipit both still upstream of bridge at Newport this afternoon. Red throated diver in the bay .

Pembrokeshire Birds: St Davids peninsula walks yesterday and today & some belated Castlemartin peninsula observations

We did some long walks between Whitesands and Abereiddi yesterday morning and between Porth Clais and Newgale today. A ring-tail hen harrier...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Crossbills

A group of 40+ Crossbills feeding on pine cones at Pantmaenog this afternoon also a fly over flock of 22 Fieldfares

Pembrokeshire Birds: Dipper, Lower Fishguard

From Paul Fraser.  Lone dipper on rock just below the road bridge in Lower Fishguard, was there for over 5 mins viewed at 1600 today from ca...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Hook - Great Northern Diver

A Great Northern Diver fishing at the mouth of Sprinkle Pill this evening. The wintering Peregrine put the Golden Plover and Dunlin flock...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Newport Estuary

Water pipit 1 Green winged teal  Both by the bridge  Little egret 3 Oystercatcher 10 Ring plover 15 Dunlin 15 Curlew 100

Pembrokeshire Birds: North Pembs

At 1630  flock of 12 swans passed, came from south and headed East for fishguard too foggy and distant so see what they were. (Rob Johns - P...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Marloes Mere

A couple of hours around dusk turned up a Ringtail hen harrier , it flushed a flock of linnet from the fields behind the Britton hide before...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Dowrog - Harriers

The now 3CY Pallid Harrier swept through the Dowrog at 16-30h, heading south. Before and after this a male Hen Harrier showed a few times, ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Whooper Swan

Whooper swan on Penberry Pond this morning

Pembrokeshire Birds: St. Brides Bay - Divers

A quick scan of the southern inner bay from Littlehaven. Large numbers of Red-throated Diver , I stopped counting at 25, plus a Great Northe...

Pembrokeshire Birds: WeBS Castlemartin Corse

Thanks to David Ord, Richard and Rob for helping with todays count. David and Rob had a Black Tailed Godwit and Curlew on their walk up the ...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Rosebush and Llys-y-fran

Good to see Alison at Rosebush doing her WEBs. 8 Tufted duck was as good as it got here. Llys-y-fran wasn't much better. A pair of Pochard...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Yellowhammer

From David Meanwell:  In a friends garden at Whitehart crossroads Dale Road a single yellowhammer today. Hopefully the first of the 5/6 that...

Pembrokeshire Birds: More Goosanders onTeifi and Marloes Stuff

Another six Goosanders were on the river at the Welsh Wildlife Centre this afternoon, four males and two females, along with a lonesome male...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Higgins Well Haverfordwest

2 pairs of Goosander and a female Goldeneye at Higgins Well yesterday afternoon.

Pembrokeshire Birds: Goosanders.

For the first time since the corresponding date in 2010.Four at Westfield Pill first thing this morning.

Pembrokeshire Birds: Pemboke Castle Pond

Male Bull Finch by old building used as boat store near the slip way, moving in and out of the ivy near the steps at the side of the buil...

Pembrokeshire Birds: Slavonian Grebe

Slavonian Grebe still at Kilpaison today (Paul Warren)