Best wishes and good luck to everyone for next year

 

This is why we are known as the 'Shearwater' family

 

Only nine more sleeps to go

 

Nine Whooper Swans near Croes Goch. Amazing winter visitors from iceland

 

So calm in Pembrokeshire yesterday

 

More about Dippers - this one below high tide mark in the river running into the Harbour at Lower Town (27th Nov). Amazing the size of stones it could turn over whilst foraging for what looked like small shrimps.

 

Same place- same time - but never the same

 

A few nights ago a tranquil evening looking at the South Bish

 

This afternoon a Dipper - not standing on a rock but taking off from underwater rather like a Polaris Missile . Amazing amount of water disturbance Pure luck that I managed to get a photo. At the top end of the harbour in Lower Town, Fishguardper

 

This afternoon in Solva a Little egret catching some nice sized fish. I first photographed it/one there in 2007. I think there has been an Egret there each winter since. It seems a Little egret lived over 22 years at Twycross Zoo - I like to think the one in Solva is the same bird visiting each winter. Also 86 Lapwing and 14 Golden plover on St Davids Airfield

 

What a fantastic day it has been - I spy something beginning with 'S' ?

 

Looking beyond Ramsey island to the South Bishops Lighthouse last night

 

 

As the sun set at Whitesands last night

The Sunset tonight over the North Bishops.

 

A Gannet diving in today in very shallow water close to the cliffs. Such precision and such amazing judgement of depths and angles would be life threatening if the Gannet made a mistake !!!

 

Tonight - it is a Curlew with a small crab. They can live up to 30 years and stay with the same mate for life. These fantastic birds are in a spiral downwards in terms of their numbers

 

Another fantastic sunset at Whitesands this evening. Although the Car park and Camp sites there are bursting with visitors unusually not a single surf board or Kayak. Simply because the sea is to calm so, paddle borders and swimmers

 

An ever changing sunset under moody skies at Whitesands tonight with plenty of people watching it

 

Yesterday was very quiet re Birds at Llangoffan Fen. Lots of Lizards, some Demoiselle, Darters and a few butterflies. Photography was somewhat challenging

 

A Dipper today in Fishguard doing a spot of foraging followed by a wash and brush up

 

Goodwick today was a busy place both for Humans and birds - Plenty of Gulls including a huge number of Kittiwake - also a mixed flock of waders including Knot, Dunlin, Ringed plover and Turnstone.

 

I have seen quite a few Bitterns over the years but never when I had a camera until today. It was a long way off and the photo is heavily cropped ( zoomed in) but my first photo of a Bittern it is/they are.

Lonely Butterflies hiding from the wind in the meadow