Whooper Swans on Pond yr Oerfa

 There  are  five  whooper  swans  on Pond yr Oerfa Ystumtuen  this  afternoon .They appear to be all adults. There  is also  a  pair  of  little  grebes  which  have  been  resident  for  many weeks  now. 

Elaine Izett. 

Out and about

 My usual trip on a Thursday as, after dropping my wife off to volunteer in the garden at Llanerchaeron, I head to wherever I fancy for three hours. Today, starting at Llanrhystud lots of gulls feeding off-shore (230 Mediterranean, 480 black-headed) and twenty odd gannets. 3 greylag geese flew south too. Nothing at the lime kilns but very pleasant strolling back looking and checking all the pipits.

At Llannon, nothing till the third gate south of the car-park and the stubble field there was full of birds. I picked up a Lapland bunting on call (worth the hours of listening to bird calls in the bleak mid winter) with lots of skylark, pipits, linnets and good flocks of chaffinch heading south. A sand Martin flitting over the field was a bonus too in a very relaxed three hours.

Russell Jones

Glandyfi

Monthly WeBS count carried out as usual at Glandyfi: Nothing unusual but a big improvement on recent visits. 

Highlights included 22 little  and  2  great whites, big influx of gulls with 315 black headed and 8 herring, unusually high number of goosanders ( 28) and a single green sand. The only raptor a single red kite

Dick Squires

Teifi Estuary and marshes

 Teifi Estuary and Marshes this morning with Mark Norris-

A steady stream of Gannets moving south off the Estuary and a Bar-tailed Godwit in with a small flock of Oystercatchers. The inner Estuary had large numbers of Herring and Black head ed Gulls. A few Great Black back and Lesser Black back Gulls. A single Common Gull present. Also several Little Egret.
From the Mallard Hide 4 Little Grebe, 2 Moorhen, a roosting Curlew, 60+ Canada Geese and an immature male Goldeneye. Later from the Creek Hide another 4 Little Grebe and again 2 Moorhen and a (squealing)Water Rail in the Reed bed. Also a single Greylag Goose with 100+ Canada Geese and 3 calling Cetti's Warblers. 

Andy James

Turtle Dove at Ynyslas

 A surprise during an hour's break in the weather at lunchtime was a turtle dove flying north over the car-park and dunes at Ynyslas. Otherwise, a greenshank on the Leri and 880 herring gulls and 700 black-headed gulls from the brickhouse.

Russell Jones

Whooper Swans

A run up to Pendam lakes by Chris B today produced only three Tufted Ducks and a Little Grebe, but on the way back he found two adult Whooper Swans on Pencefn Pool.

Chiffchaff

 I had a chiffchaff this afternoon near Talybont.

Dick Squires

Yellow Wagtail

 I had a Yellow Wagtail fly up Castle Lane, Aberaeron this afternoon.

Andy James

Hit and miss

 My wife and I went for a walk from Llanrhystud this morning but I hadn't checked to see if anything interesting had been seen, before we set off. Therefore, unfortunately, didn't go looking for the Yellow-browed Warbler. However, we were lucky enough to get very close views of 2 un-ringed Choughs mobbing a Short-eared Owl which was flapping slowly southwards.

Yellow-browed Warbler at Llansantffraed

A Yellow-browed Warbler, first reported yesterday afternoon, was still present this morning in bushes along the river Peris about 100 yards from the beach.