Strumble Head 29th Sept 2016.

Time: 07.00 - 13.30
Weather: Bright
Wind: WNW up to Force 7

Common Scoter - 18 ( 14 Males )

Sooty Shearwater - 1

Balearic Shearwater - 3

Grey Phalarope - 2

Pomarine Skua - 2 ( Juvs )

Arctic Skua - 12 ( 2 Pale, 6 Dark, 4 Juvs )

Long Tailed Skua - 1 ( Juv )

Bonxie - 2

Mediterranean Gull - 1 ( 1st W )

Little Gull - 4 ( All 1st W ) 

Sandwich Tern - 23

Arctic Tern - 1 ( Juv )

'Commic Tern' - 16

Hundreds of Manx Shearwater through today & Auk numbers picking up into the hundreds.

Porpoises showing well despite the conditions. 

Many Thanks to Richard Davies & Chris Grayell for the early stuff. 

Strumble Head 28th Sept 2016.

From Chris Greyall, a single hours watch before visibility was lost.

Wind : SW 4/5 - SSW 3- 4

Common Scoter - 2 ( males )
Balearic Shearwater - 2
Arctic Skua - 2 ( 1 Each Pale & dark ) 

Wigeon

A single Wigeon on the pond at Llanychaer this afternoon an unusual location for one of these.

Strumble Head 25th Sept. 2016

Time: 06.20 - 12.00
Weather: Bright Some showers
Wind: SSW 5/6

Common Scoter - 30 ( 29 males )
Red Throated Diver - 1 ( SP )
GREAT SHEARWATER - 1 ( 07.45 )
Balearic Shearwater - 7
Grey Plover - 1
Dunlin - 6
Sanderling - 2
Turnstone - 2
Arctic Skua - 8 ( All Dark Phase )
Bonxie - 1
Sabines Gull - 1 ( Ad )
Mediterranean Gull - 1 ( Juv )
Sandwich Tern - 24
Black Tern - 2
'Commic' Tern - 5

Porpoise showing occasionally.

Richard Davies, Chris Greyall, Paul Grennard & Brian Southern
I turned up far too late & missed nearly everything !
 

Black Terns

In Fishguard Harbour this afternoon a group of 8 Black Terns which came in off the sea spent five minutes in the harbour before gaining height and disappearing from view. Also in the harbour  3 adult and one calf Bottle nosed Dolphin,plenty of Gannets also within the harbour.
Pen Anglas this morning fairly quite except for a few Chiffchaffs and a trickle of Swallows

Tresinwen (25 Sep 16)

Green Sandpiper over the garden early morning was a new garden tick.  Still lots of Goldcrest about with a large party of Long Tailed Tits in the valley.  Extensive searching through them did not turn up anything unusual yesterday or today.  A handful of Chiffchaffs around the garden - some very smart autumn juvs.

Lots of Linnets and Goldfinch flocks around today.

Pen Anglas

More migrants around than there has been in recent days. At least 5 Chiffchaffs and a very brief view of a warbler which I suspect was a Greenish it never reappeared. It had a pale supercilium and a single wing bar that was all I got on it really before disappearing .
A fly over Yellow Wagtail also a Sand Martin,other birds of note were a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Reed Bunting,Siskin a small number of Swallows passing through.