Sightings

Main sighting: Greenfinch

Pair of green finch calling for last 2 days

Main sighting: Red Kite

Bird was feeding on prey, in the carriage way and took off in front off in front of me at 08:55 this morning.

Main sighting: Roundabout on Ty Gwyn Road Roundabout

Red Kite spotted this morning on my way to work. Fantastic couldn’t believe my eyes.

Main sighting: Spoonbills

2 Spoonbills still present, 3 Common Sandpipers and 2 Curlew on Monk’s and large numbers of Lapwing, Blackwits, Redshank etc all sheltering in the lee of the big reedbed at the far end of Prior’s with the Spoonbills

Main sighting: Spoonbill

AM: 2 spoonbill, 1 greenshank, 4 common sandpiper, 8 avocet

Main sighting: Greenshanks

Additional later sighting of 2 Greenshanks (adult and juv), kingfisher and sp Turnstone

Main sighting: Spoonbill

There were two Spoonbills on priors both sub adults also, Black-tailed Godwit 311 Dunlin 400 Knot 3 Little Egret 8 Mediterranean Gull 1 Kestrel 2 one caught a vole. Black-tailed Skimmer 6 Blue-tailed Damselfly 1 Gatekeeper 6 and Meadow Brown lots.

Main sighting: Med gull permanent fixture it seems

Also several hundred BH gulls feeding on Severn pm – 8 Mistle thrushes Passage pill – c20 Redshank

Main sighting: Common Tern

Single Common Tern (dam end)2 Little Egret (North end)

Main sighting: Red Kite

Large individual seen quartering the fields behind Newport Road at 1600hrs, north to south.

Main sighting: Red Kite

Pale undersided Red Kite seen quartering a field just cut for hay next to the M4 at this postcode. Also seen above my house same postcode on Easter Sunday and a fortnight previously (NP26 3BX) This was the first time I had seen a Red Kite in this location

Main sighting: Tawny Owl

An unseasonal duet at last light in cool, breezy conditions. Half an hour’s worth of hooting, kewick and trilling. Curious!