Sightings
Blair Jones
Mountain above the Folly Pontypool
Sat 9th May 2020
Main sighting: Cuckoo
Cuckoo calling just above the farm near the old Roman Road by the Folly area just after dawn.
Skylarks in abundance, Meadow Pipits, Wheatear and Starlings. Other species seen enroute – Pied Wagtails, Stonechat,Carrion Crows in good numbers, Chiff Chaff, Willow Warbler, Blackcaps , Lesser Black Backed Gulls and Buzzard.
Mark Davies
St Marys Vale
Sat 9th May 2020
Main sighting: Yellowhammer
Single Yellowhammer , several Wood & Willow Warblers , 3=4 Whinchats , several singing Skylarks and Meadow Pipits , a single Tree Pipit , a Red Kite and a couple of Ravens this afternoon .
Earlier in the week 3 Pied Flycatchers (2m & 1f) , a pair of Garden Warblers and a Wheatear .
Mark Whitaker
High Meadow Woods near Grosmont
Sat 9th May 2020
Main sighting: Common Crossbill
Heard calling in conifers by B4347, also Cuckoo calling (heard in England earlier), 6 singing Redstarts in vicinity, 1 Garden Warbler in song, House Martins nesting at Whitehouse Cottage.
Chris Hatch
Cwmsychan reservoir
Fri 8th May 2020
Main sighting: Grasshopper Warbler
Grasshopper Warbler at Cwmsychan reservoir near British. Also Whinchat, Wheatear, Redstart, Tree Pipits, 2 Cuckoos, 2 Peregrines, Green Hairstreak butterflies and St. Mark’s Flies.
At British, Whitethroat.
At Blaenserchan, Dingy Skipper butterfly.
Adrian & Charlotte Edwards
Coedkernew to Marshfield
Fri 8th May 2020
Main sighting: Red kite; sedge warbler
Reed bunting; reed warbler; sedge warbler (2), willow warbler (heard); pair stonechat; whitethroat – several; blackcap; 3 linnet; 3 red kite – first time we’ve ever seen them down here; buzzard; GS woodpecker; etc – 28 in all.
Iain Crawford
Monmouth
Fri 8th May 2020
Main sighting: Garden warbler
Wye valley walk , garden warbler, greenfinch, great spotted woodpecker on fenceposts, whitethroat, goldfinch. Old station, garden warbler. Monnow, 3 grey wagtail, 6 swifts, greenfinch song thrush. Drybridge Park, heron, 2 goldfinch, 2 dunnock fledglings
Richard Hardaker
twmbarlwm above henllys
Thu 7th May 2020
Main sighting: cuckoo
Cuckoo heard and seen twmbarlwm on the 7th and also on machen on the 14th
Richard Hardaker
twmbarlwm above henllys
Thu 7th May 2020
Main sighting: cuckoo
Cuckoo heard and seen twmbarlwm on the 7th and also on machen on the 14th
Keith Roylance
Near to Gobion
Thu 7th May 2020
Main sighting: Osprey
Osprey on telegraph pole.
Sighting by a non-member (Matt Gould) who requested confirmation of identification before submitting the record. Confirmed by photo supplied to Steve Butler. Bird had a GPS transmitter attached as small aerial can be seen on its back.
Iain Crawford
Wyesham
Thu 7th May 2020
Main sighting: Sparrowhawk
sparrowhawk flying SW
Graham Agg
The Narth
Wed 6th May 2020
Main sighting: Nightjar
Nightjar heard churring at 23.25 from garden in The Narth some distance away in direction of Beacon Hill..
Anthony Bowen
My Back Garden in Magor
Wed 6th May 2020
Main sighting: Eurasion Sparrow Hawk
The hawk swooped on a sparrow on our bird table and defeathered it in our back garden.
I have a photograph of it.