Forthcoming Events

Monday, 12 September 2011

High tide watch at National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd.  Entrance fee £4.50 including coffee/tea and biscuits.  Meet @ 6pm.  High tide is @ 7.16pm.

Any queries or doubts about weather contact Wendell on 07912577626

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING to be held at the National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd to commence at 7.30pm.  Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk on “The Wildlife of South West Alberta” by former Club Chairman Mr Derek Moore OBE.  Coffee/tea and biscuits to follow at £1.70 per person.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

The Club is delighted to welcome back as guest speaker Mr Nigel McCall of Carmarthen.  His talk on this occasion will be about his visit to the Falkland Islands last year.  Venue as usual will be the National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd to commence at 7.30pm.  Coffee/tea and biscuits to follow at £1.70 per person.

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

An illustrated talk by Mr Dave Rich on two visits he has made to New Zealand, he will concentrate on visits to the four most famous reserves in the country and the efforts being made to save about 30 endemic birds.  He also visited four penguin colonies and ended on a fabulous pelagic.  Venue as usual will be the National Wetlands Centre, Penclacwydd to commence at 7.30pm.  Coffee/tea and biscuits to follow at £1.70 per person.

As usual any donations of prizes for the Raffle will be greatly appreciated.

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

Saturday, 4 February 2012 or Saturday, 18 February 2012

Our annual visit to Whiteford Burrows, meet in Cwm Ivy Car Park at 9.30am.  An invitation has again been extended to our friends from Gwent Ornithological Society.  Warm clothing and waterproof footwear essential.  Bring a packed lunch with you. High tide on both dates is at approximately 5pm.

Should the weather prove unsuitable on the 4th an alternative date will be the 18th, (check the website or ring Wendell on 07912577626).

You may have missed –

Saturday, 11 June 2011 – Tally Lake

12 members met in the car park at Tally Lake, where we were greeted to great views of two male redstarts.  We walked through the churchyard and alongside the top lake, where there were lots of swallows and sand martins over the lake.  On our way to the wood there were blackcap, goldfinch and willow warbler.  The wood to the hide on the bottom lake was quiet but on the lake were mute swans with six cygnets, grey heron and tufted duck.  Our return journey was a lot quicker as the heavens opened and thunder was heard in the distance.  We had an early lunch whilst waiting for the rain to recede.  After lunch we climbed the hill behind the car park and were rewarded by spotted flycatchers, chiff chaff, coal tit, siskin mistle thrush, tree pipits and reed bunting.  On nearing the top the weather changed dramatically for the worse with heavy rain and hail stones.  We quickly took cover in the woods and waited for the storm to pass over. 

(Thanks to Barbara Edenborough for the photograph)

As we made or way back to the cars we had a great view of tree creepers and a wonderful sight on a wood warbler feeding young.  In all 44 species were recorded.

Saturday, 9 July 2011 – Pembrey CP

Our usual butterfly and dragonfly day out proved to be another success, with 10 species of butterfly recorded including: skippers (large and small), comma, ringlet, marbled white, dark green fritillary, small pearl boarded fritillary, speckled wood and meadow brown.  Emperor and black tailed skimmer dragonflies were also sighted.

Monday, 15 August 2011 – Tern Watch, Burry Port

19 members braved the cold and blustery evening at Burry Port on our annual tern watch.  There were approximately 50 sandwich terns (although the evening before there were about 200), three common terns, 51 turnstone, dunlin, knot, hundreds of oystercatchers, gulls (mediterranean, common, herring, black headed, lesser and greater black backs), peregrine, buzzard and sparrowhawk – 23 species were recorded.

Thank you to Wendell for his time and effort in organising events, it is greatly appreciated.

If any one has any interesting birding articles or accounts of birding holidays etc they would like to be added to the Newsletter please contact Julie by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .