Sightings
Verity Picken
Penpergwm
Sun 11th Feb 2024
Main sighting: Barn Owl
Flying beside the A40
Blair Jones
Caldicot Pill
Sat 10th Feb 2024
Main sighting: Pintail
Early this morning at high tide I saw the following – Flock of 12 Pintail Flying towards Sudbrook, Kestrel ( female), Shelduck x 20, numerous Stonechats, 6 x Reed Bunting, Dunnock, Blackbird,Magpie, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Wren, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Robin, Herring Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull and Grey Heron.
Robert Hughes
Above the road at Square Farm Near Dingestow
Thu 8th Feb 2024
Main sighting: Pair of Lapwing Flying/Displaying
First time I have seen these birds in this area.
Lucy Beecher
Sea Wall Marshfield
Sun 4th Feb 2024
Main sighting: Red Kite
Red Kite.
iain crawford
Monmouth
Sun 4th Feb 2024
Main sighting: Goosander
Male goosander, Wye/monnow confluence. 225 common gulls, school playing fields
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Fri 2nd Feb 2024
Main sighting: Partial roundup
Rain stopped play so only hide 1 visited – en-route collard dove, wren, starlings, herring gulls, crows, chaffinches, pheasant, song thrush, woodpigeons, blue tits, magpies, moorhens and redwings. Hide one – 10 black-tailed godwits, 108 wigeon, 95 teal, 25 shoveler, 2 gadwall, blackbird, 5 mute swans and 1 lapwing.
Andy Smith
Blorange
Sun 28th Jan 2024
Main sighting: Woodcock
Woodcock flushed from the undergrowth along side path in the Tumble valley near the lower foot bridge. This is my 4th sighting of a woodcock in the area this winter.
tony & jan jenkins
Magor
Sat 27th Jan 2024
Main sighting: short eared owl
1330hrs Flushed a SEO from Magor pill area and it flew NE towards the private area of foreshore, viewed at distance before disappearing into the spartina.
Bit disturbed at seeing 3 guys with shotguns walking along the shoreline but as this is private land difficult to object.
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Fri 26th Jan 2024
Main sighting: Weekly roundup
Fairly quiet today despite a high tide. En-route to hides – Chiffchaff contact call, crows, robin, woodpigeons, chaffinch, herring gulls, starlings, magpie, song thrush in song, blue tits, great tit and the light-morph buzzard on a distant telegraph pole. Hide one: Wren, 3 curlew, 138 lapwing, 1 heron, 52 shoveler, 168 teal, 162 wigeon, male kestrel hunting and water rail calling. Hide two – blackbird, 1st year male marsh harrier, moorhen, mallards, 1 redshank only, 8 gadwall and 2 distant gt black-backed gulls following the seawall. En-route to platform – pair of stonechats, 7 fieldfares, 11 redwings, female kestrel perched up and a female reed bunting. Snipe platform – tufted numbers up with 8 males and 5 females feeding. Seawall – high tide so not much saltings and mud exposed – another 69 curlew seen, shelduck, black headed gulls and house sparrows only. Hide three – 3 cormorants, Canada and greylags, meadow pipits and 2 skylarks.
Neville Davies
Red Barn Goldcliff
Fri 26th Jan 2024
Main sighting: Chiffchaff
Wintering chiffchafff feeding amongst the willows. Also seen, female marsh harrier, cettis calling, pheasant, 2 gadwall mallards, pair of bullfinches and 5 skylarks overhead.
Allan Dowson
newport wetlands,Uskmouth
Mon 22nd Jan 2024
Main sighting: Snipe
7-Snipe were seen from the hide,standing on fallen reeds looking right from the hide.Haven’t seen Snipe here before.Apart from the Snipe it was very quiet bird wise.
tony & jan jenkins
magor pill to redwick
Sun 21st Jan 2024
Main sighting: waders
A windy midday walk along the foreshore gave singles of grey heron, little egret, grey plover, a flock of 300 starlings, 400 woodpigeons, flock of 50 fieldfares/redwings, several pairs of curlew, a few wigeon, mallard, shelduck, at Magor pill @ 30 redshank with a few dunlin mixed in and a couple of mistle thrushes in the field next to the sewage works.