Dunnock - 1894

HEDGE SPARROW, Accentor modularis

A common resident. In a hard winter when we were feeding numerous small birds at our dining-room window, a Hedge Sparrow asserted himself as king of the company, not allowing any of the Chaffinches, Tits, Green Linnets, &c, to touch the food until he had satisfied himself. This conduct in a bird usually so unassuming and gentle not a little astonished us, and it was also remarkable that the other birds submitted to his dominion. Mr. Tracy states : " This species is very subject to warts on the beak and legs ; how can this be accounted for ?" We have never met with one thus afflicted.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

Grasshopper Warbler - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Sedge Warbler - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Melodius Warbler - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Wood Warbler - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Willow Warbler - 1894

Phylloscopus trochilus

A not very numerous summer visitor. A nest found at Stone Hall, near a pond much frequented by Herons, was entirely lined with the small grey feathers of those birds.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

Chiffchaff - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Goldcrest - 1894

Regulus cristatus

A common resident, receiving accessions to its numbers in the winter from northern countries. Mr. Dix saw a flock of about fifty in a plantation on 6th November. Goldcrests were always numerous in the larch plantations at Stone Hall, where we came across numbers of their beautiful nests. One we found close to the house was entirely lined with the feathers of the Green Woodpecker. There was a nest of these birds in an adjoining sycamore tree. We have had several bright plumaged male Goldcrests sent to us by friends for Firecrests. Although the Firecrest is extremely likely to occur in the winter-time in Pembrokeshire, we have not yet either seen or heard of a county specimen. It may be useful to remark that the Firecrest is always to be easily distinguished from the Goldcrest by the white line above the eye.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

Garden warbler - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Blackcap - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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Lesser Whitethroat - 1894

Sylvia curruca

This species is not included in their lists either by Mr. Dix or by Mr. Tracy. It does not appear to visit the adjoining county of Cardiganshire, which is far richer in the smaller summer birds than Pembrokeshire. We have, ourselves, never met with it, and it is a little bird that cannot easily escape detection. We have seen no specimens of it in any collection of stuffed birds in the county. We only admit it doubtfully on account of information supplied us by Mr. Mathias, of Haverfordwest, who tells us that when he was a boy of 14 or 15 he found a nest of this species at Lamphey, being at that time well acquainted with both the Common and Lesser Whitethroats through having taken the nests of both of them on many occasions in Gloucestershire. He adds that in the summer of 1882, a pair of these little birds frequented Hayguard Hay bottom in the parish of Dale, where he watched them closely on several days hoping to find the nest, " but they were too much for me, nettles and thorns making more impression on my hands than they did fifty years before."

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

Whitethroat - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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