Friday morning at Gwbert I had the pleasure of seeing 1 Whimbrel with 7 Curlew and c35 oystercatchers on the rocks at high tide though nothing else!
At the coffee stop on the Cliff Road a Lesser Whitethroat flitted up the slope and sang its opening few bars before deciding it was too damn cold to continue or perhaps that was just me.
Today on fields inland from Mwnt there were 2 male Wheatear and 5 Meadow pipits on a dung heap, and some Goldfinches and Linnets in the hedges; best of all was a singing Yellowhammer in this area of intensively farmed arable where a few years ago there was the largest number of breeding Yellowhammers in the County. Skylarks were singing away but over fields where the plough reached to the very edge of every field, some of which had been weed-killed as evidenced by drift onto the banks.
On the Aberporth cliffs the Chough couple are present but only one pair of Oystercatchers seem to be sitting. I'm hoping its a late start to their season occasioned by the many storms of March/early April.
A brief visit to Cross Inn forest last Sunday was very pleasant with Willow Warblers singing in the sunshine and my first Redstart of the year.