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Sightings

tony &c jan jenkins

Magor Pill

Sun 6th Nov 2022

Main sighting: waders

1400 hrs low tide, very little on foreshore to Collister Pill, female sparrowhawk over, a few redwings and fieldfares in the hedgerows but on the return to Magor Pill with the tide on the flow, increasing numbers of thrushes, several egrets, a few shelduck and at the mouth of the pill 25 grey plover, 20 redshanks, @ 150 dunlin, 2 GBB gulls and a peregrine over the foreshore heading to Caldicot.

Neville Davies

Goldcliff Lagoons

Sat 5th Nov 2022

Main sighting: Raptor activity

Blackbirds, larger numbers of redwings today, magpies, Canada geese, wrens (5), fieldfares (big umbers), robin, crows, herring gulls, mallards, cettis, 46 greylags, pheasant. Snipe Platform – good number of teal (201) and shoveler (52), 9 mute swans, 3 gadwall, starlings, chaffinch, woodpigeons, pair stonechats, meadow pipits, blue tit. Marsh Platform – 281 black-tailed godwits, 81 lapwing, water rail showing quite well, 6 dunlin in the top left corner, one with a damaged left leg, pied wagtails, 8 snipe, 2 little egrets. Seawall – curlew, oystercatchers, lesser black-backed gulls, black headed gulls, house sparrows, single redshank. Hide 3 – linnet flock and skylarks. Hide 2 – good raptor spectacle with a buzzard at the edge of the island eating food remains, taken over by ravens. Female marsh harrier quartering the lagoons with a female kestrel chasing a male peregrine, then the peregrine chasing the kestrel, a male kestrel appeared, followed by a female peregrine all flying around together with some aerial tactics. Prior to this a female sparrowhawk was also present from hide 3.

Ray Duggan

Rogerstone 14 locks pond

Sat 5th Nov 2022

Main sighting: Goosander

1 male goosander

Nicholas Beswick

Mynydd Llangatwg

Fri 4th Nov 2022

Main sighting: Merlin

Excellent view of female Merlin perched on a post near the old reservoir. Pair of Stonechats still on their territory in the gorse. A few Meadow Pipits. Winter thrushes (and berries) mostly gone. Red Kite and Sparrowhawk over. No Woodpigeon movements as yet.

Mike and Jackie Pointon

Goldcliff Lagoons

Fri 4th Nov 2022

Main sighting: Dartford Warbler

Low-tide: Dartford Warbler (first winter), Teal 215 lots of Black-tailed Godwits also Clouded Yellow 1 Red Admiral 2 and Common Darter 1

Tadhg Burrell

The Moorings River Usk Walk. Near Chichester Close

Thu 3rd Nov 2022

Main sighting: Wildfowl & Waders

Short walk along The Moorings which is a short trail around one of the Usk’s meanders. 9 wigeoen, 2 teal, 7 mallard, 10 lapwing, 20 redshank, 1 dunlin,5 magpies, 2 pied wagtail, a few redwing, 2 song thrush, a few blackbirds, 3 reed bunting, flock of goldfinches, 1 stonechat.

Tadhg Burrell

Mon. Brecon Canal Malpas

Thu 3rd Nov 2022

Main sighting: Water Rail

1 water rail in dense reeds, 5 mute swans (2 adult, 3 juvs), flock of long tailed tits, 1 bullfinch, groups of mallards and moorhens along canal.

Nicholas Beswick

Mynydd Llangatwg

Mon 31st Oct 2022

Main sighting: Wheatear

A very confiding female Wheatear near the old reservoir. Female Merlin flying low and fast over the moor failed to flush anything.

Neville Davies

Ystrad Mynach

Sun 30th Oct 2022

Main sighting: Swallow

2 swallows passing mid-morning. Late afternoon over Blackwood, female peregrine tried her luck at a lone woodpigeon but failed (1550hrs).

Adrian & Charlotte Edwards

Peterstone Seawall

Sat 29th Oct 2022

Main sighting: High tide roost spectacular

Huge numbers of oystercatchers, redshank, curlews, dunlin (hundreds of each); also BHGs, shelduck at Peterstone on the roost with the very high tide today; also good number of shoveler, wigeon, teal, mallard; a few pintail; great black backed gulls; 1000 starlings; 6 little egrets; 1 grey heron, 1 kestrel; 2 grey plover; cormorants; coots (golf club lake); swans with cygnets; few ringed plover; big flocks of fieldfares and redwings; meadow pipits and pied wagtails; lots of corvids.
AND a crimson speckled moth

Neville Davies

Goldcliff Lagoons

Sat 29th Oct 2022

Main sighting: Pintail

Dawn – 10.00. Chaffinches, skylarks, moorhens, crows, lots of fieldfares again but only 2 redwings, cettis calling. Snipe platform – 2 mute swans, robin, wren, 1 greenshank, 1 heron, 9 shoveler, Canada geese, pheasant, spoonbill still present, pair of kestrels, magpies, 1,200+ starlings, 19 snipe, 2 little egrets, 581 black-tailed godwits in 2 separate groups, linnets, excellent count of 178 knot, woodpigeons (large flocks high overhead), pied wagtails, pair stonechats, 93 lapwing, good count now of 103 teal, raven, 103 dunlin roosting but 206 seen in total, female sparrowhawk hunting (twice), blue tit, 1 ruff, meadow pipits, black headed gulls. Seawall – curlew, shelduck, ls black-backed gulls, 12 pintail, gadwall, cormorant. Blackbird, chiffchaff contact call from the hedge line. Hide two – 5 grey plover with 19 ringed plovers, pair of buzzards, goldfinches, jackdaws and collard doves.

Verity Picken

Blorenge

Fri 28th Oct 2022

Main sighting: Red Grouse

Two Red Grouse, 100+ Fieldfares over, 3 Stonechat this afternoon.

Next event

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2024
9:00 am Change of Date:- Outdoor meeting... @ Mynynedd Llangatog
Change of Date:- Outdoor meeting... @ Mynynedd Llangatog
Apr 1 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances the date of tis walk has had to be changed. It will now occur on Monday April 1st.[...]