Sightings

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby watched chasing pipit. Also Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Redstart, Tree Pipit, Wheatear, masses of SPB Fritillary, Green Hairstreak.

Main sighting: Tufted Duck

2 Tufted Duck on the river just above the Llanfoist bridge – 1st I have seen on the river . Also a Spotted Flycatcher and a Kestrel

Main sighting: Kestrel

Monnow flowing clear, but the Wye turning a murky algal green. Kestrel, kingfisher, heron, 2 buzzards, 20+swifts, 40 sand Martins, 2 garden warblers, song thrush, great spotted woodpecker, grey wagtail, 2 collared doves, moorhen and 4 chicks.

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby flew over our garden at 19:25.

Main sighting: Cetti’s Warbler

One sang several times from bushes near the castle this morning

Main sighting: Cuckoo

A place we don’t often visit, it is quite slog up from Bedwas. But we were rewarded with a Cuckoo seen calling Stonechat 3 Meadow Pipit 12 Skylark 8 Whitethroat 3 Willow Warbler 2 Linnet 8 Raven and a Robin with two young. Butterflies Speckled Wood and Small Tortoiseshell

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red Kite over Larkfield area of Chepstow at 17.40

Main sighting: Hawfinch

2 Hawfinches in Llanwenarth Churchyard this morning . Also a Curlew in flight

Main sighting: Tree Pipit

Male singing and displaying by minor road.

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red kite being harassed by crow over fields between Llanishen and Trellech late afternoon.

Main sighting: 3 red kites

Very excited to see these 3 cruising overhead this morning at around 8 am in a field between the old Severn bridge and the Wye near Chepstow.

Main sighting: 8 Swifts

In flight ‘screaming’