Thursday 11th February 2016

Bloody weather.....

This is a combined blog from yesterday when I managed to catch one bird, a Wren, and today when I turned around went home and back to bed until a more reasonable hour and better weather.

Storm Imogen has really battered the fore dunes at Pembrey reserve, with up to 20m of dunes washed away in places, the good news is that the sand will redeposit and the dunes will build again.

Marram Grass roots exposed by the collapse of the dunes, some of the roots were 3m long

The high tide today at 9.4m, brought in the following:

Teal 200+, Shelduck 10, Wigeon 4, Redshank 40+, Greenshank 1, Curlew 5, Black-Headed Gull 100+ and Common Gull 20+

Not massive numbers but still reasonable given that most of the marsh is out of sight due to the topography.

Lets hope the weather settles down.......................