Sightings

Main sighting: Goldeneye

Two hides visited only: Car park – hide: robin, crows, jackdaws, wren, buzzard (dark-morph), mallards, heron, moorhen, 29 mute swans flying out, raven, starlings, blue tit and dunnock. Hide 1: Canada geese, 3 more mute swans, 105 wigeon, 15 teal, 10 shoveler, 158 lapwing and cormorant. En-route to hide 2, song thrush, woodpigeons, great tit, magpie and redwings. Hide 2: herring gulls, 64 more lapwing, 4 redshank, female marsh harrier hunting alongside female hen harrier, 2nd female marsh joined them, 2 curlew, male goldeneye dropped in and left within a minute (3 other observers in hide), peregrine and 2 shelduck. Hide 2 – car park: fieldfares, green woodpecker, snipe in the reen, mistle thrush, blackbird and 2 female goldcrests.

Main sighting: Great spotted woodpecker drumming

Wernddu

Main sighting: Goldeneye

At Parc Nant-y-Waun this morning: female Goldeneye on Horsetail Pond, a very occasional visitor to our upland ponds and at least 12 Snipe in the bog by the pond.
Three Woodcock over Hafod Farm at last light.

Main sighting: red kite

at 1300 hrs a red kite soaring over the village heading south

Main sighting: Goshawk, Treecreeper

New Goshawk location.

Main sighting: AGM Notice

We encourage as many members as possible to attend.

Kind Regards

Blair

GOS Secretary

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.