The Gower and Day 1 of Pembrokeshire

Last Sunday, after a celebratory 70th birthday lunch in Bath with my birders wife's first cousin once removed (confused? I am), we made our way to The Gower to visit some friends.

The following day on Bank Holiday Monday, our hosts took us on a 6 mile walk along the top of The Gower at Whitesands, which is a beautiful stretch of beach bordered by pine woods.  Unfortunately, as I was the only birder present, I didn't manage much birding but did manage to find a flock of Dunlin which had three Curlew Sandpipers attached to it.

Lesser Yellowlegs

On Tuesday, we left at 8am to make our way to Pembrokeshire for a 4 day holiday.  As we were virtually going past the door of the Llanelli Wetland Centre it seemed to be a no-brainer not to visit, especially as we knew a Lessor Yellowlegs was still present.  I thought it would be easy to find the bird but it turned out to be extremely difficult, as there were decent sized flocks of Redshanks, Black Tailed Godwits and Greenshanks all asleep and tightly packed together.  It was not till a passing Sparrowhawk (1.5 hours later) stirred up things and the birds scattered thus finally revealing the Lesser Yellowlegs.

We then spent the rest of our day travelling across Pembrokeshire, took in St David's Cathedral and walked to St David's Head.