October variety
Winds carried on as did the novel run of Light-bellied Brent Geese , by the14th of October there were 20 present and as of today, the 23rd, one feeding at The Webley. Two Great Egrets were seen briefly at Mallard Pond on the Reserve on the 16th- maybe our first multiple record of this rapidly increasing breeding species (mainly Somerset) Great Egret - Dianne Williams News from Gareth Williams on the 23rd of two Great Egrets that have been seen on the horse field between Llechryd and Cenarth everyday since then. This field always has feeding Little Egrets and Grey Herons in winter. We await sightings of other egrets in this field. The counts of small waders has reduced over the last couple of weeks. For the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) on the 14th, the count of Ringed Plover was down to 7 and just 1 Dunlin. Only 1 Turnstone after a large count at the beginning of the month. It is unusual to record double figures of Turnstone on the Teifi but 15 were feeding on Patch on the 1st October.