A quiet morning doing my WeBS at Pitcot Pond St Brides Major this morning was brightened by my first ever stonechat at the site.

The Green Sandpiper showed well at WWT Llanelli Boardwalk Hide this afternoon.

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I was a bit late to the sabines experience in Port Talbot but was rewarded by the best birding for me in a long while.

3 spotted flycatchers at Southerndown this morning found by Dave Ripley.

A pleasant 1/2 hour with med gulls on Porthcawl Seafront this afternoon.

I got my annual puffin fix yesterday. I am too crocked for Skomer steps so I did an 1 1/2 cruise from Martins Haven. Lovely and cool on the water.

This principle should run through journalism like the words in a stick of rock. Yet somehow, day after day, it seems to evade the BBC's finest minds.

Last week in Dorset. Distant WTE, common tern, sandwich tern with sand eel for juvie and a corn bunting

Black tailed godwits, knot and ruff at WWT Llanelli yesterday

Enjoyable morning in Cowbridge Gallary. Photos and paintings by Paul Dunn from Glamorgan Heritage Coast. Landscapes butterflies and reptiles plus auroras

Black redstart in my Bridgend garden

Porthcawl Seafront at high tide this morning.