Sightings
tony & jan jenkins
Magor Pill to Redwick
Mon 26th Oct 2020
Main sighting: brent geese
High tide walk this afternoon produced 2 DB Brent geese flying upriver, on the tideline, 30 knot together with a few dunlin and single turnstone, inland 35 curlew on the field,
Tadhg Burrell
Fourteen Locks
Sun 25th Oct 2020
Main sighting: Kingfisher
Single female kingfisher. Now seems to be a regular occurrence fishing on the canal. Mallards, Juvenile mute swan, moorhens, long-tailed tits.
Tadhg Burrell
Fourteen Locks
Fri 23rd Oct 2020
Main sighting: Kingfisher
1 Kingfisher, several mallards (20+) squabbling over females, 1 Juvenile mute swan, Moorhens (adults and juveniles), Goldfinches, Blackbird.
Nicholas Beswick
Hafod Farm, Brynmawr
Fri 23rd Oct 2020
Main sighting: Woodcock
A single Woodcock over at dusk, heading on to the moor. Brambling earlier with numerous Chaffinches and Goldfinches,
John
Goldcliff Lagoons
Fri 23rd Oct 2020
Main sighting: Cetti's Warbler
A Cetti’s Warbler was calling frequently from behind the Snipe platform and another in the hedgerow across the field from the Redshank platform. A Chiffchaff was calling, not contact calling, a proper ‘Chiffchaff’ call from the car park area. Very little on the lagoons with the raised water levels so I was surprised to see a flock of 100+ Dunlin which flew over Monk’s but eventually settled on Prior’s where the ‘island’ usually appears. There were also about 8 Curlew and 20 Lapwings and a couple of Curlew Sandpipers were mixed in with the Dunlin..
tony & jan jenkins
Magor Pill to Redwick
Mon 19th Oct 2020
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
Adrian & Charlotte Edwards
Tredegar park lake
Sun 18th Oct 2020
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
Nicholas Beswick
Hafod Farm, Brynmawr
Sun 18th Oct 2020
Main sighting: Fieldfare
Flock of 60 plus Fieldfares (recent Redwings have moved on). Also Stonechat and Treecreeper.
tony & jan jenkins
Goldcliff Pill & Wetlands
Sat 17th Oct 2020
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
Chris Forster Brown
Pen y Clawdd farm Dingestow
Sat 17th Oct 2020
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).
Tadhg Burrell
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 17th Oct 2020
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
Nicholas Beswick
Hafod Farm Brynmawr
Fri 16th Oct 2020
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