Wood Sandpiper - 2000 onwards

Tringa glareola  -  Scarce passage migrant

2000 - Singles Westfield Pill 24 Aug,  juv Newgale Marsh 28 – 30 Sept. Singles Skokholm 19 & 23 July, then 2 juvs on 22 – 24 Aug.

2001 - Singles, Skokholm 1 Aug and Teifi Est 2 Sept.

2002 - Single, Westfield Pill 14 Sept (AJH).

2003 - A single recorded at Pembroke MP from 12 to 26 Aug (PKG et al). Single Skokholm 9 Aug (GT).

2004 - Single, Nevern Est 11 Aug (GJW)

2005 - Single, Castlemartin Corse, 20 Sept (MS)

2006 - One, North Pond, Skomer 25 Aug.

2008 - The only records received were of singles at West Williamston on 31 Aug (PJ) and on Skomer on 5 Sept (DB)

2012 - The only record was of one in Fishguard Harbour on 16th Aug.

2013 - Singles were at Teifi Marshes on 21st July (photo opposite by T. Evans) and at Dale on 24th Aug, with another (or possibly the same) in the Marloes area on 25th Aug.  Finally, two birds flew over Pen Anglas on 26th Aug.

2014 - Only four records this year, singles: at Marloes Mere 14th & 24th May and on Skokholm on 22nd May and then on return passage on Skomer on 25th July.

2015 - All reports were of single birds on autumn passage in August: at Skokholm & Marloes Mere on 7th, two on Skomer on 11th, at Marloes Mere on the 12th, at The Gann on 13th, two on Skokholm on 23rd and finally another on the 30th Aug.

2016 - The only record was of a single on Skokholm 9th – 14th Aug

2017 - A single on Skomer 5th – 8th May, another 4th Aug and one on Skokholm on 17 - 20th Aug, photo below

2018 - Singles on Skokholm 26th July and at Marloes Mere 12th Aug were the only records

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports

Wood Sandpiper - 2016 Skokholm

Tringa glareola -Scarce not recorded every year

A juvenile at North Pond on 9th August was two days later than the first of last season. It remained at the same site until the 14th but was not seen subsequently. A six day stay equalled birds logged in May 1994 and September 1972, the only longer residency being 11 days in August 1955 (a bird which was coincidentally the first Skokholm record). Although down on the four birds of 2015, singles in 2014 and 2005 are the only other records since one in 2003. There have now been birds in three consecutive years, a regularity which on Skokholm has only occurred before in the periods 1994 to 1996, 1971 to 1973 and 1962 to 1964. There are now records in 27 of 87 recording years.

Skokholm Annual Report 2016

Wood Sandpiper - 1949

Tringa glareola

The only record is of one seen at Stone Hall by Mathew, spring 1886.

R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society

Wood Sandpiper - 1994

Scarce passage migrant

Mathew (1894) recorded a Wood Sandpiper at Stone Hall (Welsh Hook) in spring, the next being reported in 1955 when single birds were seen at Skokholm from 10-20 August and at Little Milford on 11 August.

Since then it has proved to be a scarce migrant more frequently seen in the autumn than the spring, having been recorded in 22 autumns and 11 springs. No more than two have occurred, between 17 April and 5 June and between 2 July and 8 October. Most records are from coastal areas, mainly Skokholm, Skomer and the Gann, but inland occurrences have been noted at Hilton Court, Croesgoch, Stone Hall, Rosebush reservoir, Letterston and Ffynnonnau.

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

Wood Sandpiper - 1894

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

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