Friday, 20 October 2017

Tardy summer visitors? Friday 20th October 2017

With storm "Brian" on the way for Saturday I got out and about this morning and walked the beach, it was good to see very little storm damage from last weeks visitor, Ophelia.

Noticeable in the brief window of good weather was the movement of Skylarks heading SE across the reserve and out over the estuary, the Cormorant flock is building up at CE51 with c25 birds roosting this morning.

Heading back inland a late Northern Wheatear was nice to see, it may be the same one that Adam saw at the Pembrey Harbour end earlier today.

Northern Wheatear

A well earned rest in the shelter allowed me to notice the number of Goldcrests, and Robins flitting about. On the walk back along the gravel tack to the van there was lots of birds activity in the scrub and a few minutes of "pishing" soon had a couple of Blackcaps, a  male and a female type, investigating the noise; (pishing is a birding term for making a pish sound which some birds will come to investigate). A male Bullfinch "peeped" back and more Goldcrests were moving through looking for insects.

I plan to be on site for high water tomorrow around 07:45, despite the forecast 50mph winds, come and join me!!!

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