Sightings

Main sighting: redwing

flock of 50 +redwing feeding along hedgerow and on adjacent field

Main sighting: treecreepers

2 pairs of treecreepers – one in St Mellons golf club, the other at Peterstone golf club; so perhaps golf clubs have something to offer wildlife. Also large group (40) fieldfares enjoying the fareway. 6 little egrets, 2 pairs of swans, one grey heron and a buzzard at the site of the proposed Wentloog solar farm … kestrel at St Mellons railway line; also mistle thrushes (5), grey and pied wagtails together, and meadow pipit.

Main sighting: Little Egrets

A group of 12 little egrets on the shallows between flooded river and the oxbow, also a pair of goosander and 2 little grebe

Main sighting: Redpoll

Redpoll, gsw, 2 wrens, 11 ravens buzzard, 70 common gulls

Main sighting: Lapwing

With the Avon Llwyd bursting it’s banks again for the 2nd time In 12 months and the first times.since 1986 .We are used to seeing the local birds particularly gulls on the fields but a first for me was seeing 18 lapwing and a little egret amongst them plus the usual goosander swimming on the field where the old sandmartin colony got washed away last winter .

Main sighting: Goosander

Male Goosander in the main pond with 35 Mallard

Main sighting: Glossy Ibis

Roadside viewing saw the 2 Glossy Ibis feeding in the far left corner. Also noted were 2 pairs of Tufted Ducks and 3 pairs of Gadwall.

Main sighting: Barnacle Geese

Very quiet on the lagoons today, water level is way too high still for waders (only seen a pair of Black-tailed Godwits briefly). Of note was a male Peregrine passing in front of hide 1 which spooked 5 Common Snipe. Snipe platform – 78 Shoveler, 182 Teal, 121 Wigeon (225 more from the seawall), 1 Gadwall, 3 fem and 2 male Tufted Ducks, 11 Greylags and Ravens. Seawall – no sign of the Black Redstart (Dan Webb reported a fem from Goldcliff Pill which may be the bird which has been loitering around the buildings by the seawall)? 39 Avocet, 71 Oystercatchers, 52 Curlew and 1 Gt Black-backed Gull. Hide 3 – the four Barnacle Geese were in with the Canada’s.

Main sighting: Goosander

(Heavy rain and bad visibility made it quite difficult to view and accurately record numbers. )
5 to 7 mostly male goosanders, several coot and moorhens, usual group of Canada geese, family of mute swans, countless mallards

Main sighting: Barn Owl

Barn owl at dawn quartering the meadows 07.30 am .flock of 50 plus and 100plus redwing feeding on old fallen fruit .Stayed with us all day whilst working on power lines .Goshawk in the open chasing woodpigeon and later this afternoon a female sprawk stalking the fieldfare .Others include raven (a regular pair rolling and mixed finch flock of linnet siskin and chaffinch .

Main sighting: Various plus a merlin

Quick visit late afternoon ..redwing and fieldfare in small numbers in hawth. 4 stonechat fem Sprawk sat on snipe platform ..seawall 100plus dunlin pretending to be starlings .320 Canada Geese coming in over the seawall .small skien of 5 barnacle geese also coming g in at low tide Females Merlin low over the meadow behind seawall hide .Tufted duck Shelduck Shoveler and teal in number and 4 snipe put up from sedge approaching seawall .Bosprey buzzards thingy is now frequenting the meadows opposite Whitstone .others include the Carrion Crows trying to mate on their new nest by the seawall 14 curlew at low tide and a really grumpy bunch of mallard fighting .and a partridge in a pear tree .p.s wear ya wellies its bogging …

Main sighting: Disturbance at Goldcliff Lagoons

There will be some disturbance at Goldcliff Lagoons on Thursday afternoon when we do our monthly monitoring of water levels and salinities. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.