Sightings

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby patrolling over The Narth this morning.

Main sighting: Stock doves

8 stock doves, 1 buzzard, numerous meadow pipits and goldfinches

Main sighting: Spotted Flycatcher

Single bird seen on edge of grounds long with goldfinches, blue tits, a greenfinch, 5 linnets, 1 song thrush and two chaffinches.

Main sighting: Green Sandpiper

1 juvenile Green Sandpiper, a juvenile Cuckoo was seen being fed by a Reed Warbler, other warblers in the hedges included a couple of Lesser Whitethroats and Whitethroats and 1 Willow Warbler. Several Shrill Carder Bees in the parking area at Redhouse Barns, around various pea flowers, was nice.

Main sighting: Spoonbills and Green Sandpiper

En-route hide 1 – swallows, great tit, woodpigeons, cettis, (in the reen by the bridge – kingfisher, little egret and mallard), gt spotted woodpecker pair, jackdaws, blue tits, magpies, goldfinches and 2 whitethroats. Hide one – 3 buzzards (inc very light-morph bird), green sandpiper, Canada geese, pied wagtail, 7 dunlin, 4 stock doves, 2 snipe and 19 ringed plovers. Hide two – linnets, 77 lapwing, 23 black-headed gulls, 28 more dunlin (3 juvs included), family group of 6 whitethroats, robin, 3 more snipe, 2 swallows, 1 swift, 3 herons, green woodpecker calling, moorhen, 25 black-tailed godwits, 2 chiffchaffs, starlings, collard dove, 1 willow warbler, 7 mute swans, herring gulls and marsh harrier. Snipe platform – family group reed warblers, 2 house martins, pair lt grebes with 3 chicks, tufted family group, 7 gadwall, greylags, 34 coot, 4 redshanks, little owl pellet and raven. Seawall – 168 shelduck, 2 curlew, whimbrel calling, 25 oystercatchers, 17 more house martins and 18 swallows, ls black-backed gulls and sparrows. Hide three – male pintail, pair of spoonbills roosting, juv stonechat, skylark, 3 teal, 1 sand martin. Juvenile redstart on way back out close to hide 2. Other: 2 red admirals, countless gatekeepers.

Main sighting: Red Start

Willow Warbler, Wheatear, Whitethroat, Kingfisher and Lapwing

Main sighting: Red Start, Willow Warbler, Wheatear

Lapwing, kingfisher

Main sighting: Redstart

Willow warbler wheat ear

Main sighting: Peregrine Falcon

Pelegrine Falcon

Main sighting: Yellow Wagtail

8 Yellow Wagtail feeding around cattle Infront of hides

Main sighting: Garden warbler

Garden warbler on church lane, with white throats; swallows, reed, sedge and wrens on ty mawr lane; ravens at the church as usual.

Main sighting: Disturbance at Goldcliff Lagoons

There will be some disturbance on Sunday, between about 9.45am and 3pm , when Cardiff Conservation Volunteers cut vegetation around the fox fence. We apologise fir any inconvenience caused.