Honey Buzzard - 1993 onwards

Pernis apivorus - Rare visitor.

1995 - Singles were at Marloes 11 April (GHR) and soaring over Pantmaenog Forest 6 May (GHR)

1996 - An individual came in off the sea at Porthlisky on 28 April (MEB), one at Skokholm 6 June and one at Slebech 20 Aug (JWD)

1998 - one at Dinas Island 4 July (MSh)

1999 - Passage birds noted over Ramsey 22 April (RH) and going east Strumble Head 25 Oct (CB, GHR)

2000 -  Singles in September at Skomer on the 16th (JGB) (3rd record for the island) and at Whitchurch on the 30th (MS).

2001 - A single flew south over Newgale 26 Aug.  (MB).

2003 - Single seen coming in off the sea at Strumble Hd 22 Aug (CB, GHR, RS).

2004 - One on Ramsey on 24 Sept was the only record (GJW).

2005 - Single seen coming in off the sea at Strumble Head, 7 Aug (GHR)

2009 - There were three records of singles on passage in the autumn: at Stumble Head on 7 and 13 August (GHR) and at Dale Airfield 25 Sept (AH)

2011 - The only record was of a single bird on Ramsey on 19th Apr (LM).

2012 - The only record was of one was seen on Skomer on 27th May (DRM).

2013 - The only record was of one over the Deer Park, Martin’s Haven on 20th Sept.

2017 - What was presumably the same bird was seen over Skomer then Llanychaer on 27th June. The only other record was of one over Skokholm on 24th May.

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports

Honey Buzzard - 1994

Rare visitor

Mathew (1894) mentions one seen at Creselly in 1851. Otherwise the first record was of a single bird at Skomer from 29 September to 13 October 1974. It has since been recorded at Skomer on 30 May 1985, at Skokholm on 18 August 1982, 14 July 1989, 19 May 1990 and 18 and 19 August 1991, and at an inland locality in June 1984. Three together flew in off the sea at Strumble Head on 18 October 1981.

Donovan J.W. & Rees G.H (1994), Birds of Pembrokeshire

Note that the

1982 record on Skokholm was actually on the 10th August

1991 record was on Skomer, not Skokholm

Honey Buzzard - 1894

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

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