Sightings
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 12th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Cattle Egrets
En-route to hides – woodpigeons large flocks high overhead (Continental birds), mallards, pheasants, crows, robin, jackdaws, starlings, Canada geese, herring gulls, moorhen, ravens, swan pair (in the reen) and blue tits. Hide 1: single black-tailed godwit, 2 redshanks, 2 teal, magpies and 3 cattle egrets that dropped in on the island at 0732 then left at 0758. Hide 2: wren, 19 lapwing, 75 more teal, cettis (2), cormorant, reed bunting, pair stonechats, meadow pipits, song thrush, 2 snipe overhead and 3 skylarks. Snipe platform: 24 more swans, 32 more teal, 12 shoveler, 18 gadwall and 3 wigeon. En-route to sea wall: 3 curlew, male kestrel, chiffchaff contact call and chaffinch. Seawall: 8 oystercatchers, shelduck, black-headed gulls, 15 more curlew, 3 dunlin, 58 more wigeon and an immature common gull. Hide 3: water rail squealing, adult female sparrowhawk crossing the lagoon, 2 little egrets, 15 greylag geese, 5 rooks, juvenile male sparrowhawk perched on a post was mobbed by a passing female marsh harrier. Back on the seawall was a very showy and immaculate juvenile female northern wheatear (and a basking red admiral on the wall). En-route to the car park pied wagtails, goldfinches, great tit, linnet and 9 swallows. Other: speckled wood by the entrance and small white.
Lee Parsons
Brynithel
Thu 10th Oct 2024
Main sighting: House Martin
Single House Martin at 10:25am.
Verity Picken
Llangybi
Thu 10th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Redwing
The first garden Redwings this morning.
Verity Picken
Llangybi
Sun 6th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Brambling
A nice male Brambling in the garden – the first of the autumn. A flock of 80-100 Goldfinches has been around for a week or so now, plus a few Linnets, Greenfinches etc.
Chris Formaggia
Llantilio Crossenny
Sun 6th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Pair of goldcrest
Pair foraging in garden hedge along with 1# pied flycatcher, 2# robin, 2# blue tit and several house sparrow. All observations also captured in audio on BirdWeather.com monitor. Goldcrest present 0714 to 0902.
Paul Joy and Blair Jones
Peterstone Gout
Sat 5th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Little Stint
Wader roost.
100 + Dunlin, 1 x Little Stint, 1 x Turnstone.
Other sightings
4 x Pintail Ducks, 50 + Shelduck, 10 + Wigeon , 10 x Gadwall , 4 x Shoveler, 2 x Common Sandpiper, 2 x Cormorant, 30 + Redshank. 1 x grey heron, 1 x Little Egret.
20 x Canada Geese, Cetti Warbler heard. 1 x Kingfisher.
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 5th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Willow Warbler
En-route to hides – Canada geese, jackdaws, raven, herring gulls, pheasants, moorhens, chiffchaff, crows, heron, woodpigeons, starlings, chaffinch, 2 swans (in reen), 3 little egrets overhead and blackbirds. Hide 1 – cettis, 90 restless black-tailed godwits flying out over sea wall, 1 gadwall and mallards. En-route hide 2 – magpies, blue tit, 2nd chiffchaff, buzzard, linnets, great white egret flying towards The Point and 2 snipe overhead. Hide 2 – grey wagtail, 32 teal, 52 lapwing, skylark, 2nd buzzard and robins. Snipe platform – male stonechat, rooks, wren, 30 swans, 56 more gadwall, coot, female marsh harrier and 4 house martins. Song thrush on the way to the seawall. Seawall – 6 swallows, shelduck, wigeon, black headed gulls, another little egret, 1 curlew only and shoveler. Hide 3 – 28 meadow pipits, pair stonechats, 51 swallows in small groups, water rail calling, 34 greylag geese, single ruff, 1 cormorant and goldfinches. Back by snipe platform 11 skylarks overhead calling and 4 snipe overhead. Back at hide 1 pair of redshanks briefly feeding before flying off. Back by the car park roving flock included 1 willow warbler, 3 chiffchaffs, long tailed tits, dunnock, wren, blue and great tits. Other: 2 commas, 1 red admiral, 2 large whites and migrant hawkers.
Neville Davies
Machen
Fri 4th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Great White Egret
Late morning / dinner time, single GWE flying through the Machen gap from the direction of Caerphilly (possibly been at the castle moat)? Following the river but high up heading towards the coast (possibly the Gwent Levels). Early afternoon a male goshawk drifted over.
Mike and Jackie Pointon
OOC Llanishen and Lisvane Reservoirs
Fri 4th Oct 2024
Main sighting: Black Tern
A Black Tern feeding on Lisvane has been there a few days, also Common Sandpiper.
tony & jan jenkins
st arvans
Thu 3rd Oct 2024
Main sighting: house martins
small passage of martins heading south at midday – 200 plus birds over 10 minute period
Lee Parsons
Brynithel
Thu 3rd Oct 2024
Main sighting: Redwing
30+ Redwing flying over heading East
Chris Dyson
Llandegfedd Reservoir
Sun 29th Sep 2024
Main sighting: White-tailed Eagle
One of the released birds from the Isle of Wight dropped in at the reservoir this afternoon and caused quite a stir among the local wildfowl. It lingered for a good 15 minutes.