2018 has been a mixed year with lots of high points, getting paid to do what I love, and the low points of family tragedy.
Having spent less time on the local nature reserves doesn't mean they have been neglected, far from it's just that each visit has been better quality, and with more maintenance being done by contractors those visits have been spent recording and monitoring.
Some early observations have not been good, NO Strandline Beetles recorded in 2018, much lower numbers of Common Lizard and Slow Worm, and NO Grass Snakes. On the flip side butterfly numbers were higher than 2017, although I'm still waiting for the detail from the surveys carried out. No doubt the weather during late winter and early spring affected the reptiles and of course that heatwave influenced the butterflies, what will summer 2019 be like though?
The bird list stands at a respectable 116 species/subspecies, a full list below, if you have records for birds I've missed off please let me know to update the totals, eg Green Sandpiper is missing this year.
Pembrey Burrows & Saltings
LNR/SSSI, Birds recorded January -December 2018.
Includes birds seen
off Cefn Sidan from Old Pembrey Harbour to
CE54,
out to either MLW or the county boundary
1.
Shelduck
2.
Mute Swan
3.
Greylag Goose
4.
Brent Goose
5.
Mallard
6.
Wigeon
7.
Garganey
8.
Eurasian Teal
9.
Pintail
10.
Shoveler
11.
Gadwall
12.
Common Scoter
13.
Eider
14.
Great Northern Diver
15.
Red Throated Diver
16.
Little Grebe 09/04
17.
Manx Shearwater 28/04
18.
Common Pheasant
19.
Great Crested Grebe
20.
Northern Gannet
21.
Great Cormorant
22.
Little Egret
23.
Great White Egret
24.
Grey Heron
25.
Red Kite
26.
Marsh Harrier
27.
Hen Harrier
28.
Common Buzzard
29.
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
30.
Common Kestrel
31.
Merlin
32.
Peregrine
33.
Moorhen
34.
Water Rail
35.
Lapwing
36.
Eurasian Oystercatcher
37.
Common Ringed Plover
38.
European Golden Plover
39.
Grey Plover
40.
Knot
41.
Turnstone
42.
Sanderling
43.
Dunlin
44.
Common Redshank
45.
Greenshank
46.
Common Sandpiper
47.
Black-tailed Godwit
48.
Bar-Tailed Godwit
49.
Whimbrel
50.
Eurasian Curlew
51.
Woodcock
52.
Common Snipe
53.
Jack Snipe
54.
Black-headed Gull
55.
Mediterranean Gull
56.
Kittiwake
57.
Common Gull
58.
Yellow-legged Gull
59.
European Herring Gull
60.
Great Black-backed Gull
61.
Lesser Black-backed Gull
62.
Little Tern
63.
Sandwich Tern
64.
Arctic Tern
65.
Black Tern 27/08
66.
Guillemot
67.
Grey Phalarope
68.
Swift
69.
Kingfisher
70.
Wood Pigeon
71.
Collared Dove
72.
Barn Owl
73.
Short-eared Owl
74.
Sand Martin
75.
House Martin
76.
Swallow
77.
Common Skylark
78.
Meadow Pipit
79.
Rock Pipit
80.
Pied/White Wagtail
81.
Dunnock
82.
Robin
83.
Wheatear
84.
Common Stonechat
85.
Song Thrush
86.
Mistle Thrush
87.
Redwing
88.
Fieldfare
89.
Common Blackbird
90.
Blackcap
91.
Whitethroat
92.
Cetti's Warbler
93.
Reed Warbler
94.
Sedge Warbler
95.
Grasshopper Warbler
96.
Chiffchaff
97.
Yellow Browed Warbler
98.
Willow Warbler
99.
Goldcrest
100.Wren
101.Great Tit
102.Blue Tit
103.Long-tailed Tit
104.Jay
105.Common Magpie
106.Western Jackdaw
107.Rook
108.Carrion Crow
109.Common Raven
110.Common Starling
111.European Greenfinch
112.Common Chaffinch
113.Bullfinch
114.Common Linnet
115.European Goldfinch
116. Common Reed Bunting
Thanks for following the blog, here's to 2019.
