Sightings

Main sighting: Marsh Harriers

Visit from dawn until 10.45 am . Lots of activity involving two female type Marsh Harriers primarily on Monks and Priors Lagoons. Regularly quartering the lagoons and harrying the wildlfowl.
A nice flock of Lapwings on Monks 200c . Redshanks 10, Good numbers of Shovelers. Making up the rest of duck species was Wigeon, Teal, Gadwall,Mallard and Shelduck. Greylag and Canada Geese present. Mute Swans x 4 ( and the dead bird on Monks). 2 x Curlew.
Moorhen in the reen. Reed Bunting and Pied Wagtails. usual corvids – Carrion and Magpies.
Woodpidgeon, Pheasant, Blue Tits, Robin and Blackbird. 2 x Black headed gulls and 4 x Herring Gulls. Contact Chiff Chaff call heard behind hide 2.

Main sighting: Raptors

Mid to late afternoon on an outgoing tide. Hides 1 and 2: 2 marsh harrier, female kestrel, lapwing, shelduck, teal, shoveler, gadwall, mallard, Canada and greylag geese, pied wagtail. Four Bewick’s swans flying approximately southwest. Kingfisher in the reen by Hide 1. Fieldfare, starling, robin, wren, goldcrest, woodpigeon, great spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, pheasants, mute swan, magpie, jackdaw, carrion crow, and herring gull in the adjacent hedges and fields. From the seawall: peregrine on the foreshore, as well as grey heron, black-headed gull, wigeon, mallard, teal, redshank, dunlin, and ~70 curlew.

Main sighting: Chiffchaff and Spotted Redshank

En-route to hides – jackdaws, blue tits, crows, herring gulls, woodpigeons, collard dove, wrens, blackbirds, dunnock, dark looking chiffchaff, gt tits, magpies, Canada geese, song thrush, robins and a gt spotted woodpecker. Hide 1 – 118 lapwing, 46 shoveler, 69 teal, 3 redshanks, 3 shelduck, buzzard (light-phase bird), single redwing, goldfinches, linnets, single male widgeon, 2 gadwall, mallards, starlings, raven and moorhens. Hide 2 – fem marsh harrier, 36 greylags, 1 curlew, 1 skylark, 1 heron and a kingfisher feeding along the reen just outside hide 1.

Main sighting: Almost everything

At and after high tide: whimbrel, curlew, black tailed godwits, redshank, spotted redshank, oystercatchers, dunlin, turnstones grey plovers lapwings; BHGs, LBBGs, herring gulls; little egret, grey herons, kestrel, song & Mistle thrush, blackbirds, wren, robin, stonechats; shelducks, pintails, wigeon, teal, mallards, tufted and shovelers; cormorant; moorhen, coots, greylag and canadas; carrion, jackdaw; chaffinch; swans; pied wagtails; long tailed tits

Main sighting: Bewick Swan

A good morning at PG looking towards Cardiff the were large flocks of ducks and waders. Bewick Swan 2 our suspicions were confirmed by another birder who had better views. Dunlin 2000 Oystercatcher 80 Redshank 320 (single flock) Turnstone 3 Grey Plover 3 Curlew 130 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Shelduck 200 Pintail 52 Wigeon 30 Mallard 60 Shoveler 40 Teal 80 Little Egret 3 Great B/B Gull 4 Herring Gull 50 Blac-headed Gull++

Main sighting: Fieldfare

The thrush flock in the garden and neighbouring field reached c150 today; mostly Fieldfares but with a few Redwing and Starling mixed in.

Main sighting: Smew

Male adjacent to Graig Olwen Farm this morning.

Main sighting: Fieldfare

There have been up to 60 Fieldfares in the garden trees every day during the recent cold snap.

Main sighting: Smew

A drake Smew, 2 pairs Goldeneye, pair Goosander, 23 Mute Swans (but no Whooper) and Little Egret (in the middle of a field) this morning.

Main sighting: Chiffchaff

Surprised to see a Chiffchaff after the spell of cold weather, foraging along the lane south of the castle.

Main sighting: Woodcock

Single bird flushed from roadside at 0175hrs

Main sighting: Blackcaps

2 blackcaps. (1 male 1 female) Female viciously guarding feeders.