Once again treated to a view of 8 Chough from my breakfast table and later their antics as they moved around Twlc Point and Little Broughton with the Jackdaws including Kestrel evasion tactics! Despite overnight rain and a ENE wind, little to shout about in the thick scrub around the farm and then up at the Burrows. Mainly Grey and Pied Wagtail, 1 Song Thrush, 6+ Blackbirds and 5 Long-tailed tits, 2 Chiffchaffs and a few Goldcrests new in. Llangennith Burrows held 1 Reed Warbler and 1 Cetti’s Warbler and 2 Chiffchaff. A Wheatear of the Greenland race has also been around but not this morning.

Yesterday Sandwich Tern flocks roosting on the beaches numbered 14 at Burry Holms, 13 at Broughton and 16 at Whiteford. 3 Gannets and 23 Common Scoter were off Burry Holms early on. Again very few migrants perhaps Mistle Thrush and what was a probable Redwing (not calling). A Spotted Flycatcher has been lingering around the farm buildings at Broughton. A walk up to Whiteford and back was enlivened by a cracking autumn male Wheatear, 300 House Martins massing at Prissen’s Tor and moving off to feed at Whiteford. The High tide on the rocks at the western side of Whiteford Point produced 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, max 1200 Oystercatcher, 45 Ringed Plover, 150 Dunlin, 6 Sanderling 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 87 Turnstone, 20 Curlew. Many waders spread out back towards Broughton when flushed by the tide and then “fishermen”.