Sightings
Iain Crawford
Trellech
Sun 9th Mar 2025
Main sighting: Goshawk
Goshawk, 2 skylarks
Graham Agg
Trellech Common
Fri 7th Mar 2025
Main sighting: Chiffchaff
Chiffchaff calling in woods.
tony jenkins
caldicot foreshore
Thu 6th Mar 2025
Main sighting: oystercatcher
high tide roost of 70 oystercatchers under the Prince of Wales bridge, largest number that we have ever seen in Monmouthshire.
Iain Crawford
Monmouth, Monnow at two rivers
Thu 6th Mar 2025
Main sighting: Goosanders
M and F goosander
Bob Potter
Golcliff Lagoons
Wed 5th Mar 2025
Main sighting: Spotted Redshank
Spotted Redshank (opposite Hide 2); Marsh Harrier (fem); Avocet 56; Black Tailed Godwit 380; Canada Goose 51;
Mike and Jackie Pointon
Goldcliff Lagoons
Mon 3rd Mar 2025
Main sighting: Spotted Redshank
Spotted Redshank in WP no signs yet of BP. Avocet 10 Black-tailed Godwit 200 Curlew 60 all on foreshore, Lapwing 10 Ringed Plover 1 . Teal 50 Pintail 5 Pochard 1 Shoveler 20 Wigeon 30 Stonechat 3 Marsh Harrier 1
Shaun Healey
St Brides Wentlooge
Mon 3rd Mar 2025
Main sighting: Egyptian Goose
Egyptian Goose 1 (feeding on foreshore then moved to the fields feeding with the Mute Swans)
Canada Goose 25
Greylag Goose 4
Mute Swan 65
Cormorant 17
Little Egret 5
Curlew 200
Dunlin 1000
Grey Plover 2
Ringed Plover 12
Teal 2
Wigeon 10
Shelduck 300
Fieldfare 30
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 1st Mar 2025
Main sighting: Little Owl (late entry)
Added amendment to sightings for Saturday 1st – little owl pellets found near to hide 2. @M Pointon – in your sightings report, what is BP please and WP? Thanks.
Neville Davies
Goldcliff lagoons
Sat 1st Mar 2025
Main sighting: Pochards
Spring pairing up, displaying / courtship behaviour and territorial disputes starting now with the water birds. Bit more activity this week (I am away for 2 Saturday’s after today so more highlights when I get back). En-route to hides: magpies, starlings, collard doves, Canada geese, pheasant, mallards, wren, herring gulls, crows, chaffinch, woodpigeons, goldfinches and 1 buzzard. Hide 1: female goldcrest, greylags, 23 shelduck, 41 teal, pied wagtail and a female sparrowhawk put up the godwit flock. En-route to hide 2: skylark in song, great tits, blue tits and single redwing. Hide 2: 13 shoveler, 7 gadwall, 18 redshanks, 8 wigeon, 1 lapwing, 8 curlew, cettis calling, 2 oystercatchers and female marsh harrier. Snipe platform: 5 male and 1 female common pochards was a good number here, pair of tufteds mixed in, coot, pair of little grebes and a single male, 2 mute swans and blackbirds. Seawall: female stonechat, 48 more wigeon out on the high tide, 1 little egret, 27 more curlew and house sparrows. Hide 3: male pintail, 43 avocet, relocated the black-tailed godwit flock (278) with a single dunlin mixed in, black headed gull, 14 more lapwing, 1 heron, 10 more shoveler, 4 more gadwall, pair stonechats, 1 ringed plover and reed buntings (3). 4 more oystercatchers one pair ‘piping’. Back at hide 2: 2 snipe. back at the car park 1 rook over with jackdaws and robin in song.
Kirsty Graham
ST 22799 89560
Fri 28th Feb 2025
Main sighting: Curlew
Single curlew flushed off bracken at dusk and returned a few minutes later on Machen Mountain, south facing side.
Trish Beavis
Fields down from Ridgeway, Newport
Sat 22nd Feb 2025
Main sighting: Red Kite
Two days running a Red Kite flying over same field by my house.
Verity Picken
Trefil
Sat 22nd Feb 2025
Main sighting: Curlew
The first Curlew of the year has arrived back in Gwent!
This is earlier than usual so please, everyone, keep your eyes open and send all sightings (and heards) to Curlew@gwentbirds.org.uk.
All reports will be followed up on so please include the location (a grid reference is a huge help), date and time, and the number of birds.