Sightings

Main sighting: Cuckoo

A place we don’t often visit, it is quite slog up from Bedwas. But we were rewarded with a Cuckoo seen calling Stonechat 3 Meadow Pipit 12 Skylark 8 Whitethroat 3 Willow Warbler 2 Linnet 8 Raven and a Robin with two young. Butterflies Speckled Wood and Small Tortoiseshell

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red Kite over Larkfield area of Chepstow at 17.40

Main sighting: Hawfinch

2 Hawfinches in Llanwenarth Churchyard this morning . Also a Curlew in flight

Main sighting: Tree Pipit

Male singing and displaying by minor road.

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red kite being harassed by crow over fields between Llanishen and Trellech late afternoon.

Main sighting: 3 red kites

Very excited to see these 3 cruising overhead this morning at around 8 am in a field between the old Severn bridge and the Wye near Chepstow.

Main sighting: 8 Swifts

In flight ‘screaming’

Main sighting: Red Kite

Red Kite over Ynysyfro Reservoir at 13.00 and again at 13.40. Also a pair of Paid Wagtails have started building a nest in our works van! We’ve only been on site a couple of days so they didn’t mess about 😀

Main sighting: Grasshopper Warbler

Grasshopper Warbler at Rhyd y Blew reeling from Bulrushes.

Main sighting: Hobby

1-Hobby,Lesser Whitethroat,Common Whitethroat and a Sparrowhawk.11h15-13h00.

Main sighting: Not The Thieving Magpie

Yesterday a male GS woodpecker noted flying across the garden with a complete bird’s egg in its beak; notorious thieves.
A pair of swallows arrived yesterday to nest in the garage. They normally appear the second week in April; somewhat six weeks late .
This morning the GS woodpeckers feeding at least two fully fledged young.

Main sighting: Tawny owl

Tawny owl roosting, jay, 8 goldfinch, nuthatch, song thrush, blackcap, 2 stock dove, gsw, buzzard, 2 chiffchaff, 25 sand Martins, 5 swifts, 2 grey wagtail, female Mandarin and 6 young. Also 3 fallow deer.