Lymnocryptes minimus – GIACH FACH – Winter visitor and passage migrant. Not recorded from May to July
Previous records summarised in Jack Snipe 1994
Year | Last sighting | First sighting | Notes |
2000 | 18 March | 13 October | |
2001 | 14 April | 20 September | (1) |
2002 | 17 April | 12 October | |
2003 | 7 April | 2 October | |
2004 | 10 April | 2 October | |
2005 | 13 March | 7 October | |
2006 | 4 March | 14 October | |
2007 | 10 February | 17 September | |
2008 | 17 March | 22 October | |
2009 | 17 March | 18 October | |
2010 | 24 April | 26 September | |
2011 | 4 February | 14 October | |
2012 | 31 January | 8 October | |
2013 | 7 April | 6 October | (2) |
2014 | 24 March | 14 September | |
2015 | 1 May | 5 October | |
2016 | 21 March | 8 October | |
2017 | 1 April | 12 October | |
2018 | 13 April | 27 October | (3) |
2019 | 26 March | 2 October | |
2020 | 8 March | 19 September | |
2021 | 16 April | 11 October | |
2022 | 23 March | 8 October |
Notes
(1) 2001 – 12 on Skomer 9 March – a record count
(2) 2013 – A cold weather influx was then evident in the period from 1 March to 7 April, with a single bird noted at Skokholm on 12th, 15th & 17th, at Coedcanlas on 16th March and site maxima of four birds at Castlemartin Corse on 1 March and at Teifi Marshes on 6 April.
(3) 2018 – Reported from at least 14 1km square locations
Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports which may contain more detail than shown here