Sightings
David Hopkins
Garn Lakes Blaenavon
Fri 7th Aug 2020
Main sighting: Great White Egret
Walk around Garn Lakes at approx. 10.30 a.m.
Stefan Zitzmann
Beechwood Park
Thu 6th Aug 2020
Main sighting: Crossbills
Flock of around 10 crossbills this morning in Beechwood Park in the centre of Newport.
Chris West and digger
Blorenge tram track
Wed 5th Aug 2020
Main sighting: Young kesstrel
Newly fledged Fluffy kestrel perched, male stonechat with fledgling.
Adrian & Charlotte Edwards
Marshfield
Tue 4th Aug 2020
Main sighting: Siskin
Siskin on garden feeder – unusual at this time of year here. 42 juv house martins on wires this morning. 5 song thrushes on walk last evening (often pleased if we see one – must be doing well this year)
Graham Agg
The Narth
Mon 3rd Aug 2020
Main sighting: Crossbills
A party of about 10 crossbills were in Douglas Firs on the road from The Narth to Pen y Fan Green this morning.
Verity Picken
River south of Usk
Mon 3rd Aug 2020
Main sighting: Garden Warbler
River low, Himalayan Balsam high. Sand Martin colony still active, 56 Canada Geese including juvs, Garden Warbler, 2 well-grown juv Goosanders plus the head of a decapitated Goosander in the field. Be alert – ticks rife across the Severn.
Blair Jones
Garn Lakes, Blaenavon
Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Main sighting: Green Woodpecker
Walk around Garn Lakes. No sign of the Great White Egret on the upper pond.
Lots of Bull Finches around the lakes.
Buzzard being mobbed by Magpies, near the Whistle Pub . Later it was doing a balancing act on a telegraph wire.
Green Woodpecker showed well at a distance. Really impressed by the amount of wild flowers and insects on the site.
Blair Jones
Pwll Ddu, Blaenavon
Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Main sighting: Chats
Walk to the mast and back. Stonechats in the patches of bracken. Juvenile Wheatears , Linnets and Meadow Pipits. Pair of Ravens.
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sun 2nd Aug 2020
Main sighting: Whimbrel
12noon – 1500hrs. Hide one – 2 house martins, 2 common sandpipers, 3 swallows and yellow wagtail calling. Redshank platform – 61 lapwing, 310 dunlin 6 of which were juvs, 3 shelduck, chiffchaff contact call, 2 greenshanks (1 in adult plumage), green sandpiper still present, 1 ruff (damaged leg), 6 ringed plovers and 5 yellow wagtails overhead. Snipe platform – 8 lt egrets (3 of which were juvs), 9 grey herons (3 of which were also juvs), 6 redshanks, ravens, 6 teal, another yellow wagtail over and a female reed bunting in the hedgerow. Marsh Platform – a single whimbrel passing was a nice surprise, possible juv spotted redshank (pictures awaiting confirmation). Seawall – 304 black-tailed godwits on the mudflats with 18 knot mixed in (no sign of any avocets), oysteratchers and 2 gt black-backed gulls. Hide three – 2 more yellow wagtails. Other: Green lacewing, numerous gatekeepers, meadow browns, small copper, large skipper and several hawkers species but too far to ID.
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 1st Aug 2020
Main sighting: Amendment
Apologies, my sightings were for Saturday 1st not Sunday 2nd August.
Blair Jones , Paul Joy and Paul Stephens
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 1st Aug 2020
Main sighting: Waders
Dawn visit at high tide. All three lagoons this morning had good numbers of birds, especially waders.
Priors is going from strength to strength.
Todays list –
Black-Tailed Godwits ( total 300+) main flock on Priors and seems to be growing every week. Avocets, Dunlins, Redshank, Ruff ( not the one with the dodgy leg), Curlew, Lapwings, Common Sandpiper, Black-Headed Gulls, Gerring Gull, Lesser-Black Backed Gulls, Little Egrets, Grey Heron, Carrion Crows, Yellow Wagtails and Pied Wagtails. Loads of Geese and some Mallards.
“Flossy” the Glossy ibis put in an appearnce on Priors early on before dissapperaing into the reed bed.
Andrew & Janet Cormack
Garn Lakes
Sat 1st Aug 2020
Main sighting: Great White Egret
GWE still at upper lake. Lovely to point it out to a young birder, who then got a close range fly-past 🙂