Sightings
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 18th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Water Rail
Morning visit: En-route to hides – great tits, blue tits, magpies, herring gulls, greylag geese, blackbirds, crows, Canada geese, woodpigeons, goldfinches, cettis and throughout the reserve a total of 13 chiffchaffs (several in full song). Hide one – 25 redshanks, 1 spotted redshank, 4 lapwing, 31 shelduck, 8 gadwall, mallards, marsh harrier (fem), 2 pairs stonechats, goldcrest, wren, robins, and water vole on the way to hide 2. Hide two – 2 herons, 1 coot, 116 wigeon, 36 teal, 32 shoveler, ls black-backed gulls, meadow pipit, 3 cormorants, male kestrel, reed buntings and another pair of stonechats. Snipe platform – good count of 10 coot, 3 male and 1 fem tufteds and a black headed gull (full hood). Seawall – House sparrows, 11 curlew overhead and 14 more on the mudflats, 3 oystercatchers, 2 ringed plovers, 26 grey plovers and 15 dunlin. Hide three – 2 pairs of avocet (one ringed bird, red ring 64 upper right leg), 3 black-tailed godwits, 50 more wigeon, 2 more gadwall, another pair stonechats, 20 more redshank and 2 oystercatchers. Water rail heard calling.
Mark Stephen Foord Whitaker
Llangua
Fri 17th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Stonechat
Pair beside River Monnow (unexpected for this site). Also male Goosander, singing Chiffchaff, Kingfisher and Red-legged Partridge calls.
Hadyn Jones
Collister
Fri 17th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Red Kite
Red Kite flying through. Peregrine. Also mixed flock feeding of @80 Grey Plover,@50 Knot.
Allan Dowson
Peterstone Gout
Fri 17th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Wheatear
My first migrant of the year,1-male Wheatear.
Lee Parsons
Llanhilleth
Fri 17th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Chiffchaff
Chiffchaff in full song behind St Marks Church Llanhilleth
Graham Agg
Llanishen
Tue 14th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Curlew
Curlew flying overhead with distinctive call at 08.45 at junction of Pant Glas /Hygga on B4293 between Llanishen and Trellech – reported to me by Heather Richards (they regularly frequent her land in the summer)
Chris West
Oxbow
Tue 14th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Otter
In the last 3 days grey hare, otter, tree creeper, gswood, pair goosander buzzard, raven, crow, jackdaw, 20 canada geese, 50 gull
Garry Smith
Wetlands - Uskmouth
Mon 13th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Swallow
Swallow sighted from hide (at 10.44hrs) flying down the waterway towards the river mouth
Ed Stevens
Sudbrook
Mon 13th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Gannett
Flock of 18 to 20 Gannett, seen from sudbrook but were west of second Severn crossing, off shore of caldicot pill moving out to mid channel
Mike andJackie Pointon
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sun 12th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Golden Plover
Highlights of today’s WeBS count: Golden Plover 8 Spotted Redshank 1 Avocet 41 Common Gull 2
Shelduck 372 Pintail 1 Wigeon 97 Chiffchaff 3 Sparrowhawk 1
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 11th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Barn owl / Possible yellow-browed warbler
In the vegetation by the little bridge at the entrance, small warbler with an eye stripe and wing bar seen briefly before flying further along, could not relocate but in the brief time I saw it I am certain it was a yellow-browed warbler. En-route to hide – robins, chaffinch, woodpigeons, magpies, crows, blue tits and a cettis flying across the path. Hide one – heron 1, Canada geese, teal 45, wigeon 123, shoveler 31, gadwall 3 pairs, redshank 21, ringed plover 1, mallards, mute swan 2, moorhens and shelduck 3. Hide two – Spotted redshank 1, marsh harrier 2 females, meadow pipit, wren, herring gulls, female kestrel, cormorant 2, chiffchaff, moorhen, blackbird and 2 reed buntings. Snipe platform – 3 pairs of coot, 6 more gadwall and 15 more wigeon. 51 distant avocet seen from the sea wall. Hide three – Lesser black-backed gulls, 19 more shelduck, pair of stonechats, little egret 1, jackdaws, goldfinches, pied wagtail and 4 knot. Back at hide 1 the barn owl made an appearance in the right hand corner between the showers at 1521hrs.
David Lee
Goldcliff Lagoons
Fri 10th Mar 2023
Main sighting: Spotted redshank
Mid afternoon, low tide. On the lagoons: one mute swan, 38 greylag goose, 134 Canada goose, 10 shelduck, 224 wigeon, 17 gadwall, 42 teal, six mallard, 24 shoveler, one grey heron, seven coot, nine lapwing, one spotted redshank, 20 redshank, two pied wagtail, three black-headed gull. Surrounding the lagoons: lesser black-backed gull, stonechat (four), chiffchaff (one), goldfinch, jackdaw, woodpigeon, robin, pheasant. On the foreshore, from the seawall (no counts): curlew, avocet, oystercatcher, shelduck, redshank, wigeon, black-headed gull, herring gull.