Cuckoos....one still present this morning from Otter Hide ...(the Mud Hut) near the Water Buffalo !
Two birds were first seen on the 30th April - Patch lifers for some regulars of the Teifi.
The second bird a nice hepatic female..
(Cuckoo photos - Tommy Evans)
c30 Whimbrel on Patch and Poppit with a couple flying over the marsh this morning.
Around
the estuary, 10 Ringed Plover and only a few Dunlin. One Dunlin on
Patch this morning but we did see 3 feeding on the river in the Reserve
yesterday.
Our Constant Effort Site ringing starts
tomorrow, but we have been monitoring numbers elsewhere on the Reserve.
There is a Grasshopper Warbler regularly reeling below Heron Hide, and
though few Reed Warblers around, we do appear to be seeing a very heavy
early Sedge Warbler passage. More birds than other sites are recording
so far. See 120 Sedge Warblers -- what a start to Spring