Sightings
Iain Crawford
Deri Ridge, Abergavenny
Sat 10th May 2025
Main sighting: Cuckoo
Male cuckoo, swift, 2 meadow pipits, 2 skylarks, numerous stonechats, 3 ravens, 2 willow warblers, 2 swallows.
On Bryn Arw, a buzzard, 2 red kites, a green woodpecker, a stock dove, 4 stonechats, numerous skylarks.
Keith Roylance
Blaen Bran Woodland
Fri 9th May 2025
Main sighting: Sparrowhawk
A recce for the forthcoming GOS walk on Saturday 17th May. Only 22 species noted which were: Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Nuthatch, Jay, Carrion Crow, Raven, Greenfinch, Goldfinch.
NOTE: For those attending the walk for the first time- at the bus turning circle at Upper Cwmbran there are two signs for Blaen Bran parking, please follow the left one (DO NOT TURN RIGHT UP THE STEEP HILL). The walk is over rough and uneven ground initially. We will be taking a slightly different route from previous years to improve walking conditions in the later stages.
Nicholas Beswick
Gilwern
Fri 9th May 2025
Main sighting: Hobby
Hobby flying high over this morning, heading up river.
Jim Par
Wentwood
Thu 8th May 2025
Main sighting: Wood warbler
Heard in beeches on track from car park
Kevin Boina M'Koubou Dupé
Goldcliff Lagoons
Thu 8th May 2025
Main sighting: Disturbance
There will be some disturbance on Thursday, between 12pm and 1pm when we lower the water level on Bec’s Lagoon. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Iain Crawford
Monmouth, Peregrine Path
Wed 7th May 2025
Main sighting: Cuckoo
Cuckoo heard, a buzzard, a song thrush, a blackcap, also 40 sand martins.
Graham Agg
Trellech Common Woods
Mon 5th May 2025
Main sighting: Wood Warbler
Wood Warbler singing in mixed softwood/hardwoods.
Chris Stone
Borenge
Sun 4th May 2025
Main sighting: Red grouse
2 Red grouse calling – poss 3
Neville Davies
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sat 3rd May 2025
Main sighting: Curlew Sandpiper
En-route to hides: pheasants, blue tits, goldfinches, wrens, magpies, chaffinch, pied wagtail, chiffchaffs, starling, moorhen, woodpigeons, crows, blackcaps, mallards, blackbirds, skylark, whitethroats and cettis. Hide 2: Canada and graylag geese (both with goslings), 4 oystercatchers, 126 black-tailed godwits, 10 knot (3 in breeding plumage), 21 avocets (2 pairs with chicks), 54 dunlin with the first curlew sandpiper of the summer mixed in, coot, lesser black-backed gulls, reed buntings, 1 stock dove, 2 swallows, 10 redshanks, (no sign of the spotted), raven, reed warblers, lesser whitethroats, marsh harrier, gadwall, sedge warbler, 2 little stints (1 in breeding plumage), 4 bar tailed godwits, 2 ruff, 1 common sandpiper, 2 little egrets and 1 heron. Snipe platform: 7 male and 2 female tufted ducks, 2 whimbrel overhead, 6 swans, 4 more gadwall, 2 shoveler, 2 little grebes and a pair of common pochard. Seawall: greater black-backed gull, 3 more fly-over whimbrel (one also feeding on the mud). Hide 3: buzzard, 6 teal, green-winged teal still present as is the pink-footed goose but sightings sparse, 2 cormorants, 1 ringed plover, 8 more gadwall, 4 lapwing, 61 more avocet (numerous chicks) and a male peregrine up high circling.
Mike Pointon
Bedwas
Wed 30th Apr 2025
Main sighting: Swift
Four Swift late afternoon, first of the year.
David Hathaway
Parkhouse
Tue 29th Apr 2025
Main sighting: Curlew
Curlew calling in right hand field on the Llanishen to Parkhouse Lane. Reported to me by bird watcher
Allan Dowson
Peter stone Wentloog
Mon 28th Apr 2025
Main sighting: Whimbrel
Big numbers of Whimbrel this evening.I counted at least 62.I think there could have been many more further down channel towards Sluice farm and beyond.19h15-20h00.