Sightings

Main sighting: Common Sandpiper

5-Common Sandpipers,7-Ravens,8-Stock Doves,35+Mallards,1-Kingfisher,family groups of both Chiffchaffs and Grey Wagtails.Butterflies few and far between and then only whites.10h30-13h15

Main sighting: Great White Egret

1-Great White Egret at the Gout this afternoon 14h35-15h15

Main sighting: swifts

A small passage of swifts, screaming high over orchard at 1900hrs @ 12 – 15 birds heading south

Main sighting: Spotted flycatcher

Spotted flycatcher, 2 buzzards, 2 grey herons, great spotted and green wpecker.

Main sighting: Nightjar

Walking the dog after sunset to avoid the heat of the day, from Cadeira Beeches on Thursday and Friday, a Nightjar put in very close appearances both nights, with a bonus Woodcock on Friday.

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby over the upper lake, mobbed by Swallows. Pair of Little Grebes on the lower lake. Count of 29 species in all.

Main sighting: Wheatear

Garn Lakes area; Wheatear 3 Willow Warbler 6 Little Grebe 1 ad 1 Juv Dragonflies: Common Hawker 2 Emperor 1 Common Darter12 and Emerald Damselfly 40+

Main sighting: Green Sandpiper

1-Green Sandpiper from the snipe platform,1-GWE,9-Little Egrets,167+Black’wits,1f-Marsh Harrier,4-juvenile Willow Warblers along the fence between snipe and marsh platforms.All water fowl and wader activity now seems to be confined to Priors as the other lagoons are completely dry.10h30-12h00

Main sighting: Spotted flycatcher

Pair of spotted flycatchers

Main sighting: Peregrine

Peregrine falcon, red kite, sparrowhawk, kestrel.

Main sighting: Common Sandpiper

Single on stony shoals, also 6 Little Egrets together, 1 Grey Wagtail plus approx. 7 Sand Martins around nest site in welsh bank. Kingfisher seen here regularly but not today.

Main sighting: Hobby

Hobby high over River Usk. Only a few Sand Martins around the nest colony. Four Little Egrets. Kingfisher, female Goosander