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Sightings

Mike and Jackie Pointon

Goldcliff Lagoons

Sun 9th Jun 2024

Main sighting: Ruff

Highlights of the WeBS count: a Ruff displaying to a Reeve a good selection of waders including Black and Bar-tailed Godwit Knot Ringed Plover Avocet Lapwing Redshank also, Wigeon Teal Gadwall and Tufted Duck Reed Warbler Cetti’s Warbler Whitethroat Lesser Whitethroat Blackcap and Chiffchaff a few Swifts Sand Martins and a single House Martin

Neville Davies

Goldcliff Lagoons

Sat 8th Jun 2024

Main sighting: Cuckoo / Gt White Egret

En-route to hides – blackbirds, jackdaws, woodpigeons, crows, blackcaps, wrens, pheasant, whitethroat, goldfinches, swallows, buzzard, moorhen, collard dove, magpie, herring gulls and song thrush. Hide one – heron, skylark, cormorant, 11 gadwall, 2 shoveler, coot, 7 redshanks, reed warbler singing and greylags. Hide two – 4 oystercatchers (2 juvenile birds about half-grown), chiffchaff, cetttis, mallards (going into eclipse plumage), lesser black-backed gull, 32 lapwing, 4 lt egrets, gt tit, 4 swifts, starlings and 5 shelduck. Snipe platform – great white egret tucked away on the far right corner of the reeds, lt grebe pair with 2 young, 3 mute swans and 2 more herons. Seawall – stonechat pair, 8 ringed plovers, linnets and pied wagtail. Hide three – 2 pairs tufted’s and 2 separate males, meadow pipits, 44 black-tailed godwits with 4 knot mixed in, 9 more redshanks, 3 more gadwall, reed bunting, 5 avocet, 35 dunlin and the male wigeon is still present now also going into eclipse plumage. Cuckoo heard only from the marsh platform.

tony jenkins

st arvans

Sat 8th Jun 2024

Main sighting: cuckoo

Cuckoo flying over house and calling at 0515 hrs this morning !
Disappointed that our house martins have not returned this year.

David Hathaway

Second Severn Crossing

Tue 4th Jun 2024

Main sighting: Shell Ducks

Walk along the Severn. 19 shell Ducks on the waters edge a few little egrets. Flocks of starlings.
4 blackbirds,BTO is wanting a blackbird count and they are in decline

Gareth Rees

Goldcliff

Tue 4th Jun 2024

Main sighting: Bar-tailed Godwits

A mixed flock c40 Godwits on the first lagoon (viewed from first and second hides) had at least 6 Bar-tailed Godwits in amongst the Black-tailed at 13:45. Also 18 Redshank were feeding together there. All those waders had departed or moved elsewhere on reserve by 15:00 and 22 Lapwing had taken their place

Lee ashcroft

Ynysyfro/old cwmbran

Sun 2nd Jun 2024

Main sighting: Swifts

Great to see swifts back over ynysyfro and old Cwmbran
Also red kite low over ynysyfro last few days even landing on waters edge to drink

Kevin Wood

Garnlydan reservoir

Fri 31st May 2024

Main sighting: Osprey

Whilst visiting the area above Garnlydan Reservoir, noticed a large bird of prey being harrassed by Gulls. When I checked through Binoculars it was an Osprey, it circled the Reservoir before moving off south. Also saw 2 Buzzards, 3 Jays, Whitethroat, Wheatear, Siskins during the morning. But first time seen an osprey with walking distance from my house.

Verity Picken

Gwent

Thu 30th May 2024

Main sighting: Curlew chicks

Our first chicks were seen yesterday! Please continue to send all sightings to curlew@gwentbirds.org.uk – there are definitely more to be found!

Mike and Jackie Pointon

Bedwas

Wed 29th May 2024

Main sighting: Ringed-neck Parakeet

Ringed-neck Parakeet flew over our garden. Not seen one in the Caerphilly area previously.

Chris Dyson

Llanellen

Sun 26th May 2024

Main sighting: Nightjar

4 Nightjars in Coed y Prior clearfells above Llanellen near Abergavenny this evening audible from the canal towpath. Also a Barn Owl hunting over fields above the canal.

David Hathaway

LLanishen

Sun 26th May 2024

Main sighting: Garden Warbler

I have a nest of Garden Warblers in amongst long grass and thistles. Today a blackbird chased out a Tawney owl out of one of my sheds,the owl then got mobbed by many other birds. We now have a pair of greater spotted with two chicks. Siskins are still about. I am concerned about the lack of House Martins, I have at the most 4 pairs around my house,I have been to Lake Vynwy this week and there was only 4 birds I saw,last year there was nearer 100. Yellow Wagtail was on the fertiliser on Crumblands farm

Neville Davies

Goldcliff lagoons

Sat 25th May 2024

Main sighting: Cuckoo show

En-route to hides – wrens, blackcap,, pheasant, cuckoo calling, magpies, woodpigeons, robin, crows, collard dove, herring gulls, sparrows, jackdaws, Canada geese, mallards, chiffchaff, blackbird, whitethroat, kestrel, moorhen and goldfinch. Hide one – skylarks, 10 avocet, 5 grey herons, 8 redshanks (chicks seen), 2 lapwing, ls black-backed gull, 30 black-tailed goswits (mostly non-breeding birds), coot, greylags, 3 oystercatchers, 3 gadwall, 1 ringed plover and 3 shelduck. Hide two – cettis, pied wagtail (ad and juvenile), 3 shoveler, 3 lt egrets, starlings and ls whitethroat calling. Snipe platform – 3 male and 2 female tufted ducks, pair lt grebes, 6 swans, gt tit, 6 cormorants flying in, 2 swifts, reed warbler, reed bunting, stonechats, swallow and a male peregrine quite high. Hide three – spoonbill (which flew onto the saltings), sedge warbler singing in front of the hide, 3 more ringed plovers, 10 more avocet, 6 more redshanks, pair teal and pair wigeon still present (no sign of the pintail pair) and meadow pipits. Seawall – 4 curlew and 13 distant turnstones. Back close to hide 2, male cuckoo chasing a female and joined by a second male (possibly the same 3 as last Saturday)? Other: green-veined white butterfly.

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