Sightings

Main sighting: Little egrets

Late afternoon low tide walk from Magor Pill to Redwick gave @ 12 little egrets, curlew, single grey plover, 6 turnstone, kestrel, several pairs of ravens, grey heron, a few stock doves heading west & cettis calling

Main sighting: Little grebes

10 Little grebes on the lake, also few tufted ducks, 5 cormorants, grey heron, 15+ coots, also moorhens, mallards, BHGulls, swans

Main sighting: Fieldfare

Flock of 60 plus Fieldfares (recent Redwings have moved on). Also Stonechat and Treecreeper.

Main sighting: Male Marsh Harrier

Male marsh harrier flying over seawall 1515 hrs then heading west hunting over wetlands for 15 mins being mobbed by raven, heading west, peregrine also flying from shore heading north inland, 2 cettis also calling, also pair of stonechats

Main sighting: fieldfare

Plenty of redwings, blackbirds and song thrushes around Pen y clawdd farm Dingestow. Smaller numbers of fieldfare (groups of five or six).

Main sighting: Peregrine and Wheatears

1 female Peregrine resting on gate post
2 female Wheatears on sea wall
2 female stonechat on reserve walk
4 Black tailed godwits
Shovelers
Teal
Flock of Dunlin
Plenty of Lapwing
3 Oestercatchers
Few mallards
Family of mute swans with 3 more on lagoon
6 Canadian geese

Main sighting: Brambling

Yesterday a female Brambling with Chaffinches. No sign of a Ring Ouzel reported nearby but plenty of Redwings and immigrant Blackbirds. Today, a pair of Stonechats

Main sighting: porpoise

Porpoise heading upriver off Black Rock yesterday, late afternoon by Rhys Jenkins

Main sighting: curlew sandpiper

Solitary curlew sand spotted from 1st platform, 2 chiffchaffs calling, green woodpecker & group of 24 redshank & @ 65 lapwing.
Very quiet on the foreshore with only 1 blk t. godwit and 5 oystercatchers

Main sighting: Aberrant Redwing

A very attractive aberrant Redwing appeared in a flock of c30 in the garden this morning. All the usually brown parts, including the breast markings, were honey-coloured, the primaries and tail were off-white, and the flanks red. Two Fieldfare also present.

Main sighting: Redwing

More than 150 Redwing and a pair of Stonechat (not common here) this morning.

Main sighting: Tree creeper

I observed a tree creeper with a flock of tits around Milton primary school.