Latest sightings
Thu 21st Oct 2021
St Brides, Usk estuary
Curlews
Thu 21st Oct 2021
Llanwenarth
Little Owl
Wed 20th Oct 2021
coed morgan
swallow
- Cancellation of Walk Saturday 23rd OctoberSun 17th Oct 2021GOS Walk 23rd October 2021 Dear All – and especially those of you intending to come on the walk scheduled for a.m. of Sat 23rd October. I greatly regret having to cancel this walk. Since the 2021 programme was compiled and publicised, my physical condition has deteriorated to the extent that I ...Read here...
Colour-ringed Curlew caught on cameraFri 8th Oct 2021The Curlew pictured here was photographed at Goldcliff Lagoons this morning (8 October 2021) by Terry Winter. The bird is NBB (Black Blue Blue). If the left tarsus (below the knee) had been visible an orange ring over a white ring would have been seen – this is the marker for all birds marked ...Read here...- Curlew hide on Becs Lagoon, GoldcliffMon 4th Oct 2021Natural Resources Wales have kindly given permission for Mike Smart of Curlew Forum to take a very unobtrusive, camouflaged portable hide to the edge of Becs Lagoon at high tide in order to try to obtain more ring readings. He will only use the hide very occasionally on the highest of tides and ...Read here...
- Do you bird Goldcliff at dusk?Fri 17th Sep 2021If you do, and have seen fair numbers of Curlews arriving to roost, please let Mike Smart know if this was on an evening when a high tide pushed them off the saltmarsh or on an evening when the tide was not particularly high. Email smartmike143@gmail.com ....Read here...
