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140............ This morning started much calmer than yesterdays eventful weather, there was little breeze when I got to the eastern end of the reserve at Old Pembrey Harbour, it didn't last too long, and soon a steady breeze built up, it was noticeably colder, not cooler, colder ! The tide was starting to fall and the waders seemed more relaxed, yesterday they were being buffeted by the strong wind. Species and numbers were similar to yesterday, although the Bar-tailed Godwits had reached a grand total of three, actually a good number for the site at this time of year. An Atlantic Grey Seal was "bottling" in the estuary. There was one red-breasted Merganser present and he didn't want his photo taken, so a rushed and heavily cropped photo is all you are getting today! Red-breasted Merganser After chatting with the sea watch king, Adam, I drove around to the reserve entrance and made my way to the beach at CE51, plenty going on here with a massive 1

The state of things today.... Yesterday, being a Wednesday was volunteer day for the Local nature Reserves volunteers, so we met at our newest reserve at Morfa Berwig, to find out more about the reserve you will have to go back through the blog..... We were joined by a couple of people who had  seen the "Keep Wales Tidy", Facebook page and saw that they could come along and help with a litter pick... many thanks. With the usual array of empty cans, bottles, sweet wrappers, crisp packets and general litter dumped from a house we found this little lot... Used syringes, and a couple of "bongs" used for smoking drugs Its sad to say that Llanelli like most provincial towns has a significant drug addiction problem, a whole generation seems to be "lost" with those involved oblivious to little else other than the difficult life they find themselves in, its not for me to judge but I object to their life style having a negative impact on oth

Effort pays off, up with the Larks.... Being a sand dune reserve, there are good numbers of Skylark wintering, probably joining the already strong breeding population. I have toyed with the idea of trying to catch and ring Skylarks for a few months, finally I bit the bullet and having found what looked like the perfect spot, a disused car park which is now very weedy surrounded by sand dunes, I put thought in to action. So it was yesterday evening that I set out the positions of the nets for an early morning session today. On site at 05:30hrs, to put up the nets, the poles and guys were where I had left them!, when all was set  some very loud Skylark song was played and I retired to the van. I checked the nets carefully and was amazed to find a Wren in the bottom pocket and a few metres away a SKYLARK. Relatively few Skylark are ringed each year so it was good to be able to handle this iconic bird. Skylark Skylark (VH) I was joined by my able "scribe&qu