Sightings

Main sighting: Male Goosander

solitary male Goosander, fishing & calling

Main sighting: Female dartford warbler and male teal.

Early afternoon walk to hide 3 ( avocet hide ) and back gave similar species to what Neville Davies saw yesterday, I didn’t do a count so not as accurate as that. I didn’t see marsh harrier ( in the reeds, someone saw them earlier on ). At the redshank platform I observed good numbers of teal and lapwing ( dead swan on island needs taking away maybe avian flu ), also a female dartford warbler on a wooden post to the right chasing insects, I saw it again later in brambles from hide 2. From the seawall 4 curlews and towards hide 3 a kingfisher, 1 greylag goose and a merlin sat on a post.

Main sighting: Brent Goose / Dartford Warbler

En-route to hide 1 – green woodpecker, collard doves, woodpigeons, robin, moorhen, herring gulls, blue tots, blackbirds, long tailed tits, wren, magpies, crows, light-phase buzzard, mistle thrush, male pheasant, 2 fieldfares and 1 little egret. Hide 1 – 7 shelduck, another good count of 612 lapwing, 45 greylags, 23 wigeon, 63 teal, 45 redshanks with a spotted redshank mixed in, 1st-year male marsh and 2 adult females, 15 shoveler and Canada geese. Hide 2 – female Dartford warbler flitting amongst the three large bramble bushes with a pair of stonechats, 2 wrens, 1 cettis and 1 chiffchaff. Also from here 5 gadwall, mallards, curlew, pied wagtail, heron, cormorant, male sparrowhawk and a dark-bellied brent goose that landed and preened for about 10 minutes. En-route back to hide 1 – pair of goldcrests and 4 reed buntings along the hedge line.

Main sighting: Goosanders

Male and female on the pond

Main sighting: 12 siskins

12 Siskins

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.