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Mon 29th Nov 2021
The British
Fieldfare & redwings
Sun 28th Nov 2021
Slimbridge
Common Crane
Sun 28th Nov 2021
Nedern Brook, Caldicot
Common Snipe
Colour-ringed Curlew caught on cameraFri 8th Oct 2021The Curlew pictured here was photographed at Goldcliff Lagoons this morning (8 October 2021) by Terry Winter. The bird is NBB (Black Blue Blue). If the left tarsus (below the knee) had been visible an orange ring over a white ring would have been seen – this is the marker for all birds marked ...Read here...- Curlew hide on Becs Lagoon, GoldcliffMon 4th Oct 2021Natural Resources Wales have kindly given permission for Mike Smart of Curlew Forum to take a very unobtrusive, camouflaged portable hide to the edge of Becs Lagoon at high tide in order to try to obtain more ring readings. He will only use the hide very occasionally on the highest of tides and ...Read here...
- Do you bird Goldcliff at dusk?Fri 17th Sep 2021If you do, and have seen fair numbers of Curlews arriving to roost, please let Mike Smart know if this was on an evening when a high tide pushed them off the saltmarsh or on an evening when the tide was not particularly high. Email smartmike143@gmail.com ....Read here...
- Colour-ringed Curlew sightings wantedMon 13th Sep 2021The group running a Curlew colour-ringing project under the auspices of the BTO are keen to learn of any sightings of colour-ringed Curlews at Goldcliff, West Usk Lighthouse, Peterstone or anywhere else on the Gwent coast this autumn/winter. In 2015/16 41 Curlews were caught on the Usk Estuary and ...Read here...
