August highlights..from the Marshes
A good variety of bird sightings over the last couple of weeks. On the 15th August a Wood Sandpiper was seen from creek hide.
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| Wood Sandpiper - Tommy Evans |
Three different Ospreys have been recorded over the Teifi Marshes and estuary. One is unringed. One has a black colour ring from the German scheme 5C2R. This has also been seen on the Nevern Estuary at Newport. Details of the location of ringing are awaited. The third, blue 7H6 was recorded here last year.
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| Osprey ringed in Germany - Tommy Evans |
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| Osprey 7H6 ringed in Scotland - Diane Williams |
This Osprey was ringed in 2022 near Inverness. See last years blog for details July 2024 Ospreys to Dolphins
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| Curlew ringed in Holland - Tommy Evans |
Tommy has also received details of a Curlew with a leg flag. This bird was ringed as a chick in the Drenthe region of the Netherlands in June this year.
Creek hide is a good place to see a variety of waders when there is exposed mud. As well as the Wood Sandpiper at the start of the month there have been 9 Greenshank together, 4 Snipe and on the 26th, 2 Green Sandpipers.
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| Green Sandpiper - Diane Williams |
Cattle Egrets are uncommon visitors to the Teifi so to hear that on the 24th, Karen Leah had photographed a flock of nine was exceptional.
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| Cattle Egrets - Karen Leah |
Migration through the reed bed is slowing down and the Reed Warblers that bred on the reserve are fattening up and starting to leave. At dusk a couple of hundred Swallows feed over the reeds before going to roost.
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| Sedge Warbler - Diane Williams |
See the Teifi Ringing Group blog for more information "Early Migration and key species"
Sightings and news from the estuary and sea in the next blog.
(Wendy J and Rich D)