Sightings

Main sighting: Avocet

7-Avocets from sea wall hide on the right hand end of the island.1f-Marsh Harrier.Good to see the access to the middle hide greatly improved.

Main sighting: Stoat

A stoat seen hunting for food – brown with a black tail seen at approximately at 8:15a.m. Quite rare for this county.

Main sighting: Woodcock

Adult sitting on road just after dark at about 1700

Main sighting: Woodcock

Single adult sitting on the road just after dark at about 1700

Main sighting: Little Egret

A little Egret was in the fields south of the village. And in the village church grounds a Red Admiral.

Main sighting: Waders

High tide visit before and after sunrise. Highlights – Flock of 14 x Avocets, Dunlins 100 + at Gout but further on closer to Peterstone Village easily 300+. Grey Plover x 4, Knot x 2, Oystercatcher and Black Tailed Godwits.
Ducks – Pintail, Shoveler, Teal, Mallard and Shelduck.
Birds of Prey – Peregrine Falcon and Buzzard
Others – Wren, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch , Fieldfare and Green Woodpecker, Canada Geese.

Main sighting: Spotted Redshank

WeBS count today Spotted Redshank heard calling then seen swimming on Priors. Teal 286 Lapwing 149 Black-tailed Godwit 222 Shoveler 45 Gadwall 24 Stonechat 3. A quite day. Interestingly, No Coot, Tufted Duck or Little Grebe.

Main sighting: Great White Egrat

One Great white Egrat on the canal in Fernlea

Main sighting: Avocets

Waders fast becoming a rarity on the lagoons due to the water levels purposely kept high for the winter ducks. Shame something couldn’t be constructed for lagoon 3, only long-legged waders now. En-route to hides: robins, crows, 2 buzzards, jackdaws, Canada geese, blackbirds, moorhen and herring gulls. Hide 1: mallards only. Hide 2: pair of shelduck, 7 shoveler, 86 lapwing, 24 teal, 23 wigeon, 6 passing swans, 35 ringed plovers that flew in over the lagoons and straight out over the seawall as water too high, starlings and female marsh harrier. En-route platform a single chiffchaff feeding in the hedge line, magpies and a blue tit. Snipe platform – 76 more teal, 5 gadwall, coot, 4 more shoveler, 4 more swans and woodpigeons. En-route to platform – 3 stock doves overhead and distant collard dove calling. Marsh platform – cettis and wren at the base of the reeds opposite. Seawall: cormorant, 1 heron, 10 curlew, oystercatchers, 1 great black-backed gull, 1 common gull, black headed gulls, male peregrine perched on the washed up tree later having a go at the godwits, pied wagtail, 3 dunlin and 19 avocets was nice to see. Hide 3: little egret, 233 more teal and 3 more wigeon. Back at the car park 3 redwings, chaffinch and a song thrush.

Main sighting: Yellow leg gull

Yellow leg gull – 2 -Adults – plus assorted gulls – in flooded fields 250 meters north of bridge
over river Usk – there is a parking space on north side of bridge – very busy with with road works!

Main sighting: Yellow leg gull

There are some flooded fields which contained at least two of the above YLG’s adults, plus some BH and some other larger gull’s – I was on my way home from Landegfedd res when I spotted the gulls, and had to do a u – turn – there is a handy parking space just before the bridge going south. – There are also road works north of the bridge, with traffic lights at the road works!

Main sighting: Black Swan

Black Swan; Canada Geese 73; Lapwing 23; Wigeon 52; Teal 21; Gadwall 2; Coot; Moorhen; Grey Heron; Little Grebe; Mallard; Great Spotted Woodpecker; Blue Tit; Great Tit; Coal Tit; Greenfinch; Nuthatch.
Nedern Brook well flooded due to recent rain.