Forthcoming Events

Saturday 28 August 2010

Walk around Kidwelly Quay and Glan yr Afon NR. Meet at 10am Kidwelly Quay. High tide is at approximately 9am (7.4m).

Friday 24 September 2010

High tide watch at National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd Now Cancelled

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Annual General Meeting @ 7.30pm at the National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd. Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk given by Mr Ziggy Otto (CCW). His subject will be “The Bury Inlet, a larder for all creatures great and small.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

An illustrated talk by Mr Bob Haycock on his work with Choughs in West Wales to commence at 7.30pm at the National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd.

Wednesday 15 December 2010

We again welcome Club member Dave Rich who will on this occasion guide us through identifying gulls by species and age. Talk to commence at 7.30pm at National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd.

Donations of Raffle prizes for indoor Meetings would be greatly appreciated. All talks will be followed by coffee/tea and biscuits @ £1.50 per person.

Saturday 15 January 2011

Following the postponement of the planned visit to Whiteford Burrows in January this year (two visits were re-arranged for 24 January and 6 February).

Our visit this year, weather permitting will be on Saturday, 15 January 2011. Meet in the car park at Cwm Ivy @ 09.30hrs. It is hoped that we can again welcome some of our friends from Gwent. In the event of unsuitable weather another date is available on Saturday, 29 January 2011.

High tides for these dates: 15 January 2011 14.26hr – 6.5m

29 January 2011 14.40hr – 6.6m

Any queries or doubts about weather contact Wendell on 07912577626

Our thanks go to the Management and Staff at Penclacwydd for the use of the building for our indoor meetings.

You may have missed –

Saturday 12 June 2010 – Carmel NR/Area 1 Carmel. Pantllyn, Pwll y Drychiad

What a pity only five members: Martin Lewis, Geoff Davies, Danny Davies, Wendall Thomas and Julie Evans turned up as it was a glorious day out at Carmel. The weather was perfect with clear azure blue skies.

Carmel National Nature Reserve is one of the UK's richest wildlife areas. It boasts 14 different habitats, which are home to some of our rarest plant and animal species. Adjoining the reserve are ancient meadows which date back to the ninth century and are described in the earliest documented reference to grassland management in UK history!

Melodic Blackcaps and Willow Warblers were singing in the trees at the car park. After leaving the car park and walking through the woods we came across a party of Tits and amongst them was a Marsh Tit. We then crossed the lane and walked through the field which leads to the woods and had sightings of 13 species of woodland birds including Nuthatch, Chiff Chaff and the star of the day a lovely Spotted Flycatcher of which we had a great view of flitting back and fore to its perch. We also saw Swallows, Swifts and House Martins.

We then drove up the road to Pantllyn where there is a turlough (a seasonal lake) which is the only one in mainland Britain. Here we had more woodland birds including Coal Tit with young, Marsh Tit, Little Grebe, and Red Kite – 11 species.

After lunch we walked across the A476 to Pwll y Drychiad and got 15 more species: Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Chaffinch, Great Tit, Buzzard, Song Thrush, Cuckoo (heard), Blackbird, Robin, Wood Pigeon, Willow Warbler and Jay.

The butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies we saw throughout the day were: Speckled Wood, Red Admiral, Meadow Brown, , Small Tortoiseshell, Green Veined White, Large White, Small Copper, Common Blue, Silver Washed Fritillary), Azure Damselfly, Broad Bodied Chaser, Four Spotted Chaser, Emperor Dragonfly.

Saturday 17 July 2010 – Pembrey CP

As it had rained heavily the day before and the weather was overcast and slightly breezy when members met in the main car park at the Country Park, we were not too optimistic of seeing too many butterflies. We were soon to be proved wrong; when we got into the clearings in the trees the butterflies were out in force!! They must have been taking advantage of warmth after the day before.

We had wonderful views of Speckled Wood, Ringlet, Marbled White, Silver Washed Fritillary, Gate Keeper, Small Skipper, Dark Green Fritillary, Meadow Brown, Large Skipper, Six-Spot Burnett Moth, Common Blue, Green Veined White, Small Heath, Small Blue, Red Admiral and Holly Blue (16 species). One moth of interest was a Wood Tiger Moth. We also saw lots of Funnel Web Spider web’s many with the spider in situ.

We also had sightings of 22 species of birds including Great Spotted Woodpecker and Tree Pipit.

Wednesday 11 August 2010 – Burry Port Tern Watch

We met in the car park at Shoreline Caravan Park at 6.30pm on a dry and sunny evening. We walked to the harbour wall to be greeted by the usual Black Headed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Oystercatchers but also Ringed Plover, Knot, 113 Sandwich Terns, two Common Terns, Mediterranean Gulls and a Common Gull. 19 members attended the meeting.