Willow Tits and mid January
A Willow Tit feeding in the main Teifi Marshes reserve car park.
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| Willow Tit - Colin Dalton |
Willow Tits, Nuthatches, Coal Tits, are amongst the commoner Tits and House Sparrows feeding happily in the car park at this time of year. Easily the best time of year to see Willow Tit locally, see the Teifi timeline below...
Not all about birds on the Teifi, there were 6 Grey Squirrels feeding together too in the car park.
Of the non bird species, perhaps the Bottlenosed Dolphins are the most important but we have Otters ... and they show well regularly on the ponds and river.
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| Otter - Tommy Evans |
Red Deer .. often counts into double figures in the fields alongside the track to the reserve.
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| Red Deer - Colin Dalton |
No major changes in bird species or numbers over the weekend - still a great sight to see 500 Lapwing, 80 Dunlin, 24 Shelduck amongst the Wigeon opposite St Dogmael's Quay on the rising tide this morning and 16 Ringed Plover in front of The Webley.
A look back on the Teifi timeline 8-15th January
2021 .. A Willow Tit on the 9th feeding in the car park. On the 11th - 15 Goosander including 7 drakes on the river and 105 Oystercatcher on the 13th in the main estuary on the start of their journey to breeding grounds in the north.
2020 ..A Gadwall and 2 Common Sandpipers present on the river in town.
2019 ..A Great Crested Grebe on the 11th these Grebes are usually in the bay or occasionally in the estuary at high tide, and a Cattle Egret 14th.
2018 ..All the following ducks were off the Railings found with the numerous passage Wigeon, 1 Pintail on the 9th, 4 Pintail and 1 Shoveler on the 13th.
We plan to post twice weekly , trying to develop how current sightings relate to the historical records of the Teifi.
Rich D and Wendy J