Sightings

Main sighting: Goshawk, Treecreeper

New Goshawk location.

Main sighting: AGM Notice

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Main sighting: Woodcock

3 woodcock flushed whilst taking a minor track over Beacon Hill.

Main sighting: Golden Plover

Golden Plover calling at dusk from top of Cefn Coch near metal post marking path down to Waun Afon bog. Also 3 Red Grouse calling here, 2 more along path down and 1 more on Waun Afon bog.

Main sighting: White Fronted Geese

Quiet today waterbird wise as all lagoons were frozen. En-route to hides: crows, redwings, blackbirds, magpies, herring gulls, moorhen, collard dove, blue tit, wren and fieldfares. Hide 1: Canada geese and a buzzard. Hide 2: raven, flock of 12 white-fronted geese which flew off towards Goldcliff Point, 3 curlew, greylags and a pied wagtail. Snipe platform: 37 teal, 6 wigeon, starlings, 26 lapwing, chaffinches and adult female marsh harrier hunting. En-route to seawall: green woodpecker calling and a female sparrowhawk perched up. Seawall: 216 more wigeon, 15 more curlew, 15 shoveler, lesser black-backed gulls, 3 redshanks, 2 oystercatchers, 1 shelduck, 1 great black-backed gull, 2 grey plovers and 4 dunlin. Phoenix (old hide 3 spot): pair of gadwall and a meadow pipit. Back at hide 2, single snipe and 144 more lapwing. back at the car park, robin and a great spotted woodpecker.

Main sighting: Pintail

Pintail (male): Wigeon 65; Teal 52; Mallard 35; Dabchick 6; Redshank 6; Canada Goose 48; Stock Dove; Robin; Coots; Lesser Black Backed Gull 5; Black Headed Gull 6; Common Gull 7; Gadwall; Shoveler 4; Magpie16 (roost); Wood Pigeon 8:Blackbird 3; Moorhen; Carrion Crow 3: Tufted Duck 6; Jackdaw; Long Tailed Tit 6; Blue Tit; House Sparrow 10.

Main sighting: Merlin

Late afternoon visit. Two Merlins hunting over the lowest part of the bog and perching on fence posts, seen from the Whistle Inn bridge. Elsewhere, Kestrel hunting and two Red Kites over.

Main sighting: Goshawk

Over the border I watched a goshawk through binoculars flying in between the tree’s, it then perched on a branch of a conifer.

Main sighting: Whooper Swan

En-route to hides: greylags overhead, mallards, 5 mute swans overhead, crows, moorhen, blackbirds, woodpigeons, Canada geese and numerous redwings now. Hide 1: 29 more greylags and 67 more Canada’s with a pair of white-fronted geese mixed in, 116 lapwing, starlings, male stonechat,, cormorant, great black-backed gull and song thrush. Magpies and fieldfares between first 2 hides. Hide 2: pied wagtails, 8 shelduck, 26 teal, 25 shoveler, 26 wigeon, 7 curlew, 2 black-tailed godwits, raven and buzzard. Meadow pipits en-route to seawall. Seawall: 4 turnstone feeding with a redshank, 11 more curlew and 18 more wigeon. Old hide / phoenix hide: whooper swan in the 3rd lagoon took off at 0915, 96 more teal, 8 gadwall, stonechat pair and lesser black-backed gulls. Wren on way back to hides. Back at hide 2: pair golden plover on the island, female kestrel, skylarks, goldfinches and house sparrows.

Main sighting: Greater Scaup

Female Greater Scaup
Brent Goose (1 dark-bellied)
Pintail 100
Shoveler 250
Wigeon 300
Teal 200
Shelduck 50
Mallard 50
Black-Tailed Godwit 70
Knot 500
Dunlin 2000
Curlew 80
Lapwing 70
Grey Plover 2
Turnstone
Redshank 250
Oystercatcher 150
Little Egret 1

Main sighting: Goshawk

Goshawk, probably male, flew across the road ahead of my car

Main sighting: two double ringed starlings spotted in garden

Might be of interest to somebody but a small flock of starlings regularly appears in our garden to eat suet pellets. I’ve noticed several are ringed but two have double rings so thought this might be of interest to somebody. i assume they roost in Newport wetlands where I’ve been told they do ring starlings