We had another short visit to Pembroke Millponds yesterday, to see if we could see any more ringed BH Gulls. The Polish-color-ringed 1CY was still there, but we couldn’t see any of the 50 or so BH gulls present. Small grebe numbers are reasonable, with around 34 noted. As usual, most of them were in the middle lake, including a feeding flock of 14. The female goldeneye seemed to have moved on.
Today we noticed 32 dunlins, 7 turnstones and a few ringed plovers on the shore at Front Street, Pembroke Dock. A herd of 162 black-tailed godwits was feeding avidly along the muddy shore at the Waterloo end of Cosheston Pill.
For anyone with an interest in our breeding seabird populations, the latest UK Seabird Monitoring Program (SMP) report has recently been published. It focuses on the years 2021 to 2023 but covers long-term trends back to 1986. Data from Welsh seabird colonies used to analyze trends for different species includes information from in some Pembrokeshire colonies, especially from key seabird monitoring sites such as Skomer Island.
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| The SMP trend in Wales for razorbill shows a significant increase |
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| However, the trend in Wales for some species, such as the Kittiwake, shows a significant decline |
