Spring variety - egrets, gulls, Osprey

In the late evening of the 24th March, Rich D had brief views of a Cattle Egret fly through the Reserve and roost towards the centre. The Cattle Egret was then seen by Arfon Williams on the 26th whilst watching a Glaucous Gull first seen by Brennig Hughes on the 25th

Poppit Cattle Egret - Jane Beck

An Iceland Gull was also seen from Patch on the 25th March by Brennig. This video taken by Brennig of an Iceland Gull was from St Dogmaels slipway on the 4th April.

Teifi estuary sandbanks from the gull viewpoint

Cattle Egret - Teifi Estuary in its favourite paddock

This field can contain Little Egrets too. Up to 9 Little Egrets are roosting at high tide here.

This Glaucous Gull was seen on the 25th and 26th.

Glaucous Gull - Arfon Williams

The first Willow Warbler was seen by Jane Beck in Gwbert on the 27th and on the 30th we had a small arrival of singing Willow Warblers.

Into April and both the Cattle Egret and Iceland Gull are becoming regular near The Webley.

Nicely photographed on April 1st in the horse paddock by Tommy Evans.

On the 3rd, Ruth Davies was in the Coedmor area upstream of the Teifi Marshes and just as it was getting dark an Osprey came over from Cardigan direction. It headed down towards the boundary with Coed Maidie B Goddard reserve and perched in a tree on her land.

On the 4th, Jeff Slocombe found a Whinchat and a Common Redstart in hedgerow along the roadside between Cardigan Bay Holiday Park nr Poppit and Penrallt Garden Centre nr Moylegrove.

Our first obvious passage of White Wagtails on the 4th. We were ringing on the Teifi Marshes and all 8 Wagtails caught were White. We will assume the whole flock of around 30 were Whites.

Sand Martins are always present, a few Swallows and the occasional House Martin. Dusk can be interesting with up to 500 Sand Martins present, almost producing mumurations...

The nearest gull in the photo below is colour ringed. Just awaiting confirmation of it's origin but looks good for Caspian (found by Brennig on the 4th)

History being made on the reserve..

On the 23rd March following heavy rains in mid Wales, Spring equinox high tides and the wind direction - very high tides and flooding, in fact the first flooding of reserve hides..