Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 8:34AM Bucephala clangula clangula
Not very common winter visiotr, but regularly observed in Milford Haven, including Dale Roads and occasionally at Orielton.
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 11:21AM Regular visitor. Not recorded in August and September
Both Mathew (1894) and Lockley et al. (1949) classified the Goldeneye as a not very common but regular winter visitor. Today they occur regularly in winter on the Teifi, Nevern and Cleddau Estuaries, Llysyfran reservoir and Bosherston Pools, and with less regularity on other fresh waters. Up to 15 on the Teifi, one or two on the Nevern, 40-50 on the Cleddau and up to 15 at Bosherston Pools are typical winter numbers, with about 80-90 birds being the county total. Numbers increase during cold spells, with about 150 in Pembrokeshire during January—February 1987, 114 of them on the Cleddau Estuary.
Goldeneyes arrive during October and November (exceptionally September) and depart in March and April, during which periods they are sometimes seen off the headlands and islands. May records have included birds in potential breeding habitat, for example at Rosebush reservoir and one flushed from a tree at Bosherston Pools on 20 May 1980 raised great hopes. Single birds remained at the Gann until 15 June 1968 and at Jordanston Pools until 17 July 1981.
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 4:03PM 
The BTO winter atlas showed that Goldeneyes were present in both estuarine and fresh water 10km squares during the winters of 1981-82, 1982-82 and 1983-84.
The darker the colour, the higher the relative total count for each 10km square, the darkest blue represents over 27 birds, with up to 47 recorded in SM 91.
Graham Rees
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 4:26PM Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"
