Mid summer & Butterflies !
The local sea is warmer than average and a good early season for sightings of Bottlenosed Dolphins . A good start for Storm Petrel monitoring too with several successful visits to Mwnt. The image of Cardigan Island through a Thermal Imager at 1am...taken from our Mwnt Storm Petrel ringing site. Storm Petrel at Mwnt Manx Shearwaters ...writing this piece watching 7200 Manxies passing the mouth of the Teifi in 60 mins - all flying west as they return to the Pembrokeshire island this evening... This juvenile Great White Egret was seen feeding just below Priory Bridge on the 9th. Photo - Hannah Cook A huge increase in the breeding population of these large Egrets - 90 pairs in Somerset this year. An adult Black-tailed Godwit and an adult and juvenile Redshank in front of The Webley (Photo - Hannah Cook) The Webley sandbanks in the Teifi Estuary are favoured by roosting small gulls at this time of year, also Terns a bit later. There have been up to 7 Mediterranean Gulls with the Blac