Thursday, 19 October 2017

Reserve survives Ophelia Thursday 19th October 2017

This morning was my first chance to return to Pembrey and check what, if any, damage had been caused by ex-hurricane Ophelia.

It appears that the only problem was the instruments on the weather station were facing the wrong way!, (well with gusts of 75mph recorded it wasn't surprising), that was soon rectified and now everything is facing in the right direction.

I did a Snipe count on the upper marsh and found 17 Common Snipe and one Jack Snipe, perhaps numbers are on the low side but there was two thirds of the marsh not counted!

Common Snipe

Three fly over Ravens, and a single Red Kite added some interest.

Another storm is forecast for Saturday with a tide at 07:50hrs of 8.7m the marsh will hopefully be flooded and may bring in a few windswept goodies.



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