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Forthcoming Events
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
Wednesday 16 February 2011
An illustrated talk by Mr Dyfrig Jones on “Our Mammels: where, why and what next” at National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd to commence at 7.30pm and followed by tea/coffee and biscuits @ £1.50 per person.
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Club Chairman Mr Rob Hunt wil give an illustrated talk on “Birds of Carmarthenshire” at National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd to commence at 7.30pm and followed by tea/coffee and biscuits @ £1.50 per person.
Donations of Raffle prizes for these two indoor Meetings would be greatly appreciated.
Our thanks go to the Management and Staff at Penclacwydd for the use of the building for our indoor meetings.
Saturday 30 April 2011
It is that time already; our annual visit to RSPB Dinas has arrived once more. Spring migrants will be our target including redstart, pied flycatcher, warblers and hopefully the sound (at least) of a cuckoo. Meet in the reserve car park at 9.30am for this wonderful day out.
If the weather is inclement, will re-arrange for Saturday 7 May 2010 if necessary.
Any queries or doubts about weather contact Wendell on 07912577626
You may have missed –
Saturday 28 August 2010
14 members met at Kidwelly Quay on a sunny but breezy morning. We walked up to the treatment works where there were sightings of chiff chaff, pied wagtail and dunnock. We then proceeded to walk up the lane to the canal where we had a good view of a sparrow hawk. Some of us were lucky to have sight of a common sandpiper. On the return journey a male reed bunting was seen, which is somewhat of a rarity this year.
Back at the quay we had lunch and then watched the estuary where little grebe, black tailed and bar-tailed godwit, dunlin and ringed plover were spotted to name but a few.
A smaller group then visited Glan yr Afon NR where the usual greenshank and redshank were seen on the mud by the bridge.
In all we listed 36 species for the day.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
AGM and illustrated talk by Dr Ziggy Otto on The Burry Inlet, a larder for all creatures great and small. Our thanks to Dr Ziggy Otto on a very informative talk and reminding us how privileged we are to have such a diverse estuary right on our door step.
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Mr Bob Haycock gave us a fascinating insight into his work with Choughs.
With its blood-red bill and ringing cry, choughs are a classic bird of mountains across Eurasia, but in Europe, Wales is very much the stronghold. Of the 462 nesting pairs recorded in the last survey, more than 200 were found in Wales: Pembrokeshire, Anglesey and the Llyn are the main areas, with declines in some parts of inland Snowdonia. They eat soil invertebrates and so require short grass, ideally grazed by cattle that produce lots of dung. Building their nests on steep rock faces, they've taken advantage of stone extraction, nesting in both the quarries and the associated buildings, and now nest as far east as Conwy in the north and Glamorgan in the south. Their success in Wales comes thanks to targeted conservation efforts and is in contrast to Northern Ireland, where they now breed only sporadically, and western Scotland where they have struggled to become re-established on islands north of Islay.
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