Sightings

Main sighting: cuckoo

Cuckoo calling late afternoon near Devauden

Main sighting: Hawfinch

A Hawfinch sat out in the open for a short while. In Machen we saw 12 Sand Martins gathering dried grass as nesting material, not seen this behaviour before.

Main sighting: 18 Swallows

Perched on the solar farm fence surround.

Main sighting: Transitory swallows

Several hundred high flying swallows passing overhead heading due North.

Main sighting: Cuckoo

Cuckoo calling early this morning close to village,then flew over my house calling,flew off towards Devauden

Main sighting: Greenshank

2-Greenshanks from sea wall hide,1-Common Sandpiper,2-Avocets,2-LRP’S,1m-Marsh Harrier.There was a Fox on the island in front of the sea wall hide,the whole time i was there.
Also at Boat Lane singing Sedge,Garden,Willow and Reed Warblers.10h00-12h30.

Main sighting: Brambling

One female Brambling after a gap since Monday. Pair Lesser Redpolls. Jay a surprise visitor for the time of year.

Main sighting: Waders

Snipe, 2 oystercatcher, 2 little ringed plovers, a common sandpiper, 7 little egrets, 5 grey herons, 6 goosanders, 2 goldfinch, 2 ltt, a red kite, 6 buzzards, 3 stock doves, wren, song thrush, 2 grey wagtails, 2, ravens, 2 blackcap 2 swallows

Main sighting: Dotterel

Dotterel in breeding plumage on the saltmarsh at Collister.Probable
female as quite black underneath.

Main sighting: Hirundines

If you are wondering whete your spring migrants are , as in the noteable lack of Swallows and Martins etc there were over 200 on the town waters this evening .

Main sighting: Pochard

4 chiffchaffs, 2 pheasants, 2 blackcaps, pair of common whitethroats and cettis. Hide one – 10 redshanks, 1 lt ringed plover, 5 ravens, 1 fly-over whimbrel, 3 lapwing, 3 herons. Redshank platform – 3 greenshanks feeding together, 9 gadwall, 1 ringed plover, lesser whitethroat calling, 17 shelduck, 2 lt egrets, 2 fly-past stock doves, 29 teal, reed warbler singing, single black-tailed godwit, 2 buzzards, pair of linnets and 2 swallows. Snipe platform – 12 mute swans and a male little grebe. Seawall – wheatear around the manure pile area, 6 more swallows, 4 whimbrel feeding with 3 bar-tailed godwits all together just over the seawall itself. Hide three – 2 avocet, a further 40 black-tailed godwits, 12 shoveler, a very pale female type mallard, 26 more shelduck, kestrel, male common pochard, 1 cormorant, 1 fly over curlew, reed bunting and a pair of oystercatchers. Back at hide 1 at 16.30hrs, 101 dunlin present prior to high tide.

Main sighting: Goosanders

6f 4m goosanders, 1 greylag, 2 grey wagtails, numerous sand Martins, 2 kingfishers, 4 buzzards, 2 stock doves, 4 little egrets, a common sandpiper