Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A Tree Pipit and a Garden Warbler were the highlights of a short walk around Manorbier before work this morning #patchbirding #birdingWales 0370
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 25/08/2026It was great to spend time with the stunning Baird's Sandpiper on the Dale Airfield yesterday evening! With an Ortolan Bunting over Skrinkle Haven on Sunday morning as well, it's been a good couple of days! #birdingWales 0786
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Didn't have this on my radar for early August but pleased to find a 2CY Ring-billed Gull with the gathering of gulls at the south end of Tenby South Beach yesterday evening! No sign there this morning but very few gulls present. Hopefully it reappears again this evening. #patchbirding #birdingWales 1802
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 16/07/2026It's all yellow this evening! Yellow Wagtail buzzing around Skrinkle and a Clouded Yellow on the coast path. #birdingWales 0170
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 28/06/2026After catching up with the Western Reef Heron in Pembrokeshire on Friday I went back to Sandy Haven today for another look. It showed really well early afternoon! Some interesting insects about too including a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Lesser Emperor and 5 White-letter Hairstreaks! #birdingWales 0350
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Working in North Wales again this week. Very pleased the Western Reef Heron was re-found today. Showing well at RSPB Conwy late afternoon! #birdingWales 1401
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A single Storm Petrel past Skrinkle Haven this evening + Manxies moving over 5,000/hr #patchbirding #birdingWales 1321
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I've been working on Anglesey this week so made a trip over to South Stack this morning to see the female-type Woodchat Shrike found yesterday. Bird still present on the heath just south of the car park until 8.30am at least #birdingWales 1435
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Skrinkle Haven seawatch this am 06:45 -08:45. 6 Storm Petrel, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Great Northern Diver, 9 Sandwich Tern, 5 Puffin. Plus several groups of Swallows and House Martins coming in off the sea #birdingWales #patchbirding 0210
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Another morning seawatching. Good movement of birds including 2 Arctic Skuas (both d/p) - with one passing along the cliffs right overhead! Also 8 Great Northern Divers, 2 RT Divers and a Stormie. Waders moving offshore too: 29 Dunlin, 13 Sanderling and 2 Ringed Plover. #birdingWales #Patchbirding 0262
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It was nice to catch up with the Dotterel near Martin's Haven this morning. Two (M & F) were present in their favoured ploughed field #birdingWales 1382
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Some nice birds locally and out around Pembs over the last week or so as spring slowly starts going. On the local patch, a Marsh Harrier east over Skrinkle and a Goshawk over Manorbier in the week. Yesterday 2 Velvet Scoter off Telpyn Pt and today a Black Redstart at Martin's Haven! #birdingWales 0334
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 01/02/2026It was nice to find a male Green-winged Teal at a flooded Castlemartin Corse y'day morning amongst a good selection of wildfowl. You can just about see what it is from my pic (left), so here's a better pic (right) of the bird currently wintering on the Nevern Estuary in North Pembs! #birdingWales 0332
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 30/12/20252 Ad Russian White-fronted Geese still at Castlemartin Corse this morning (at the upper sections below the church). Also a Water Pipit on the flooded fields. #birdingWales 0160
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Was good to see the Tundra Bean Geese in the Towy Valley today, at least 15! Also 26 Russian White-fronts upriver of Dryslwyn Castle. Finished the day checking the scoter flocks in Carmarthen Bay. 2 ad drk Surf Scoters off Pendine (or more precisely of Ragwen Point) the highlight! #birdingWales 2371
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Nice day out across Pembs and Carms today - started with a flock of White-fronted Geese (11) over Dryslwyn Castle early am + 17 Whooper Swan. Purple Sandpipers, Great Northern and Red-throated Divers in Pembs and finished with a ringtail Hen Harrier and 3 Marsh Harriers at Ginst Point #birdingWales 1413
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 23/11/20251 of 7 Purple Sandpipers on Tenby lifeboat station at high tide this morning. #birdingWales 1331
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Ring Ouzel feasting on hawthorn berries by Manorbier beach this afternoon. At least 1 Firecrest around too. Also a Yellow-browed Warbler heard calling (unfortunately not seen) on Thursday and good movement of finches most mornings! Lots to look at at the moment! #birdingWales 1511
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Enjoyable day seawatching at St Govan's Hd yesterday. Sabine's Gull 4 (2 Ad, 2 Juv) Cory's Shearwater 1 Balearic Shearwater 1 Sooty Shearwater 4 Grey Phalarope 2 Plus a big push of 'Commic' Terns (c700) early morning and a flock of 29 Pale-bellied Brent Geese west! #birdingWales 0401
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Manx shearwaters streaming past St Govan's Hd this evening. Estimated over 11,000/hr between 5.30-6.30pm. Awesome! 8 Puffin and 2 Sanderling past too. #birdingWales 1230
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 25/05/2025This superb breeding plumage Grey Plover spent 4 days at Tenby south beach. No sign of it this evening so I assume it has continued on its northward migration #birdingWales 1483
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 05/05/20252 Bar-tailed Godwit and 4 Dunlin and on Tenby South Beach this evening. Other bits and bobs in recent days include several Whimbrel, a Tree Pipit (at Skrinkle on Fri) and a few singing Lesser Whitethroats and Garden Warblers #birdingWales 0420
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Yesterday morning there was an impressive feeding raft of Manx Shearwaters off Presipe beach. Maybe about 300+! A little flurry of migrants in the bushes at Skrinkle including my first Grasshopper Warbler and Common Whitethroat of the year #birdingWales 0340
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 08/04/2025The colour-ringed Wheatear I recorded at Manorbier on the 24th March was ringed on Lundy as a one-year old breeding male in May 2023. He was also seen in the same territory last year. Let's hope he's made it back there this year! #birdingWales 2533
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 29/03/2025My 4th Black Redstart of the spring, a female-type, on the road to RAF Manorbier this morning. Later seen on the coast path near Presipe. Also a female Wheatear and a few extra Chiffchaffs about. #BirdingWales 0401
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Wheatears! 7 this morning behind the RAF Manorbier range (2 females, 5 males). One of which was colour ringed! Any help tracking down the project would be gratefully appreciated. Lundy maybe? Also 2 Black Redstarts, a female-type and a new(?) adult male. #birdingWales 3545
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A few more common migrants appeared in the strong northerlies this morning, incl. a nice hirundine flock at Tenby Marsh with 2 House Martin, 6 Swallow and 11 Sand Martin. A Willow Warbler there too. Red-throated Diver off Tenby South Beach and the Hoopoe still at Kiln Park. #birdingWales 0220
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 22/03/2025A smart but mobile male Black Redstart above Presipe beach, Manorbier the highlight today. Yesterday a couple of White Wagtails and a Firecrest. Still waiting for that first Wheatear though! #birdingWales 0231
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Hoopoe still present at 07.45 this morning at Kiln Park, Tenby, near the railway bridge. #birdingWales 2544
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Not seen a Wheatear or Sand Martin yet! #birdingWales 1510
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Nice to catch up with the drake Black Scoter off Hoylake late morning! Good views despite distance and haze. A couple of Long-tailed Ducks offshore too. 1491
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A nice day out on Anglesey today, helping out with the annual Chough survey. Saw two birds on my section and managed to catch up with the Red-necked Grebe at Valley Wetlands RSPB later on. 57 Pochard and a few Goldeneye there too #birdingWales 0432
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 11/01/2025A nice Siberian Chiffchaff along with with 9 common chiffchaffs at Neston stw this morning #UKbirding 0421
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I did get out for a bit of a South Pembs bird race on 2nd Jan. It was a great day with loads of birds! I saw 98 species throughout the day, including Slavonian Grebe, Whooper Swan, Black Redstart, Great Northern Divers etc. A nice way to start off the year #birdingWales 0310
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 28/12/20244 Surf Scoter (3 drk, 1 female) off Gilman Point this morning (can just about make them out in the vid?!). Elsewhere the usual suspects seen, including an impressive 136 Red-throated Diver off Amroth. A w/p Black Guillemot and 6 Great Northern Diver off Tenby South beach this evening. #birdingwales 0391
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Over the years, I've spent a lot of time watching the thousands of Common Scoter that winter in Carmarthen Bay. I've never seen one up close, so it was extra special to watch this superb adult male feeding alongside the Great Northern Diver in Tenby Harbour yesterday afternoon. #birdingwales 1390
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 22/12/2024It was great to watch this juvenile Great Northern Diver feeding on a good supply of shore crabs in Tenby harbour this afternoon #birdingwales 0360
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024It's been a quieter autumn for me this year - especially after last year! Looking through the 2023 BBRC Report this evening brought back the best memories of last autumn's amazing events. I doubt I'll ever top it, but I certainly won't forget it! #BirdingWales 4824
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A great morning looking for Hawfinches at Llanrwst in the Conwy valley. Lots of activity early on with at least seven birds seen! #BirdingWales 0552
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Lovely female-type Black Redstart at Amroth today #BirdingWales #UKbirding 0280
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 21/11/2024North Pembs on Sat and South Pembs on Sun w/ @elyod95.bsky.social. Ace views of juv White-rumped Sand and Curlew Sand at Newport. Plus 3 Hen Harrier (2M + 1F) and a flyover Lapland Bunting at Dowrog. South coast quieter but a superb hunting Merlin + 2 Goosander at Bosherston #BirdingWales #ukbirding 1511
Toby Phelps @phelpstoby.bsky.social · 15/10/2024It's only taken me seven months to sort through all my photos and write up my trip report from a visit to The Gambia in March/April! Here's the link: ebird.org/tripreport/2... #birding #Gambiabirding 2344
