Sightings
Adrian Edwards
Peterstone Seawall
Sat 23rd Jul 2022
Main sighting: 3 kestrels
3 kestrels quartering the seawall midday 23/7; successful fledging presumably. Redshanks starting to gather in numbers again; hundreds of BHGs; shelducks and mallards; 20 oystercatchers; 3 curlews; 1 little egret.
Neville Davies
Goldlciff Lagoons
Sat 23rd Jul 2022
Main sighting: Great white egret
0615-1000hrs, 46 species seen, of note were 4 chiffchaffs, 1 cettis, 1 willow warbler in sub-song, 1 reed warbler (contact call), pheasant and skylark. Redshank platform – 5 swallows, 15 swifts, 55 lapwing, 5 ringed plover, 2 little egrets, green woodpecker yaffling, 3 cormorants over. Snipe platform – 1 heron, 10 mute swans, 65 mallards. Seawall – good movement of sand martins (excess of 200 birds) aerial feeding, 7 more swift, 5 curlew, 1 whimbrel, 1 black-tailed godwit on the mud, 5 yellow wagtails, 42 greylags coming in. Marsh platform – 3 more black-tailed godwits feeding, 2 teal, 14 gadwall, 1 common snipe, 5 little ringed plovers (3 juvs and 2 adults), kestrel hovering, great white egret flew in but soon went back over the Pill area, linnets and a little grebe, Lapwing platform – 4 more yellow wagtails amongst the cow herd, starling, and at 0930 a female sparrowhawk flew past low with what looked to possibly be a ringed plover in her talons. Other: meadow browns, gatekeepers (good numbers now), 1 painted lady, Essex skipper, ruddy darter, female four-spot chaser and 1 speckled wood.
Allan Dowson
Peterstone Gout
Fri 22nd Jul 2022
Main sighting: Shelduck
29-well grown juvenile Shelducks,1-Common Gull (adult),500+Blacked Headed Gulls including 11 juveniles.15h00-15h30
Julie Dungey
Afon Llwyd, Llanyrafon, Cwmbran
Fri 22nd Jul 2022
Main sighting: Goosander
Single female/eclipse male on the river
Allan Dowson
Goldcliff Lagoons
Wed 20th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Whinchat
1-juv.Whinchat along with 4-juv.Stonechats.Large flock of Black Headed Gulls 200+,contained 29 juveniles,7-Little Egrets,3 distant-Kestrels all juveniles?,1f-Marsh Harrier and large numbers of Sand Martins over Priors lagoon.10h30-12h00
iain crawford
Rholben and Deri Ridge
Wed 20th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Stonechats
25 or more stonechats, mostly juveniles. 1 juvenile whinchat, 2 mipits, 2 stock doves, a jay, 7 juvenile redstarts, 5 willow warblers, a raven, a buzzard, 3 gsw, 2 green wpecker, 2 nuthatch, 4 song thrush, 2 skylarks, 60 rooks and 2 linnets.
Kevin Dupe
Goldcliff Lagoons
Tue 19th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Avocet Hide closed
We have closed the Avocet Hide (the largest hide next to the sea-wall) as the flooring is rotten. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Tom Dalrymple
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sun 17th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Water levels
With the unprecedented heat forecast, it is unlikely that we will be able to keep water in all three lagoons at Goldcliff. We will concentrate efforts on Priors Lagoon as it is the deepest
Mike and Jackie Pointon
Goldcliff Lagoons
Sun 17th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Wigeon
Webs count today A Wigeon on Priors Great White Egret 1 Little Egret 7 Grey Heron I Mediterranean Gull a Juveniles on Monks Black-head Gull 200 Dunlin 90 Little Ringed Plover 2 Ringed Plover2 Black-tailed Godwit 80. Teal 1 Gadwall 10. There were lot of butterflies Meadow Brown Ringlet Gate Keeper Painted Lady Red Admiral Dragonflies Emerald Damselfly Blue-tailed Damselfly Emperor Common Darter
B Thomas
Goldcliff
Thu 14th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Great White Egret
Great White Egret at 2ish this pm from 3rd platform.
Hadyn Jones
West Pill
Thu 14th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Caspian Tern
At 9.10 a.m. Adult Caspian Tern flying west over my head and calling. Lost to sight when close to Collister gull roost that was put up by paddleboarder
Mike and Jackie Pointon
Goldcliff Lagoons
Tue 12th Jul 2022
Main sighting: Ruff
18:05-20:40 A male Ruff in smart plumage remnant of ruff remaining Common Sandpiper 1 Snipe 4 Little Ringed Plover 2 Ringed Plover 2 also Dunlin Black-tailed Godwit Oystercatcher Redshank Curlew Lapwing, and a large flock of Black-headed Gulls several l hundred. Other: Ruddy Darter 1 Blue-tailed Damselfly 1 Gatekeeper 6 lots of Meadow Browns.