Sightings

Main sighting: Linnet

Flock of 50+ Linnet seen from the canal just past Llanellen

Main sighting: herons

5.15 pm 2 noisy herons flying around and into heronry area,seen from fire station car park

Main sighting: Greylag geese

Greylag goose (40); Canada Goose (150+); Widgeon (120+) Teal ; Shoveler; Tufted Duck; Lapwing; Redshank; B.H.Gull; Dabchick; Coot; Mallard; Mute Swan; Heron; Buzzard; Gt Spotted Woodpecker; Green Woodpecker (calling); Song Thrush; Mistle Thrush; Long Tailed Tits; Jackdaws: (and a Fox).

Main sighting: Water Rail

Water rail dashed out through reeds giving a clear view. Mallards, moorhens and pair of mute swans (the regulars). Many tits, robins and thrushes in hedgerows.

Main sighting: Goosander male

Male Goosander on River Monnow at Rockfield. Bridge Cottage

Main sighting: Goosander

as itstopped raining went up river ebbw.12noon several blk hd gulls .approx 20+jackdaws feeding along the riverbank also 2 crows observed on edge of swollen river standing on a rock and bathing/preening in the water they could have been swept away’F/m goosander observered from road bridge flying upstream

Main sighting: mute swans

11.30am top pool water being drained into bottompool.
4 mute swan.1 pochard .10 mallard .10 tufted app rox 50 coot.2 little grebe.mistle thrush heard .also blackbirds robins and magpies in adjacent fields/Bottom pool
aprox 20 tufted.several coot.20-30 black hd gulls and by the size 2 GBB gulls few herr gulls

Main sighting: Shelduck

The flooded fields held 2 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler and 14 Wigeon as well as numerous Mallard this morning. Low numbers of Mute Swan and Canada Goose.

Main sighting: Birds of prey

A break in the weather 1130 – 1300hrs saw a kestrel hunting for worms over a saturated field, a pair of buzzards soaring and a pair of sparrowhawks being mobbed by rooks

Main sighting: Kingfisher

Kingfisher and 6 Goosander on rive r and a Song Thrush singing near garden

Main sighting: Various

high ground above blaenafon this evening rendered a single merlin , barn owl a single short eared owl hunting the heather .Red kite literally feet above my head and a scattered flock of at least 28 golden plover flying north over Coity..2 peregrine stonechat and a flock of 60 plus fieldfare acompanied by at least 12 blackbirds .highlight for me 3 snipe in ruts left by off road bikers ..

Main sighting: Whooper/Bewicks swan

Seen on the Severn between the bridges swimming but back on and which eventually went to sleep on a sand bank, difficult to be definite, but on size probably Bewicks. Eventually got washed off with incoming tide, but too dark to see then.