Sightings

Main sighting: Disturbance

There will be some disturbance at Goldcliff Lagoons around 12.30pm – 1.30pm on Tuesday when we carry out monthly monitoring. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Main sighting: Kittiwake

c68 Kitiwake sitting on the water and flying around approx 4.30 pm eventually appeared to head off high over Aust services

Main sighting: Goldeneye

Short afternoon visit. River very full but quiet birdwise with just 3 Goldeneye (down from last week), 2 Goosander (a pair) and one Little Grebe. Nine Fieldfare.

Main sighting: Kittiwake

Approximately 68 sat on Severn and flying also around eventually climbed high in the sky and flew off over Aust services

Main sighting: Peregrine

F peregrine bombed a buzzard. No damage

Main sighting: Common Gull

Goldcrest contact call, 2 reed buntings, pair of stonechats, female sparrowhawk and greylag geese. Hide one – 5 shoveler, 1 shelduck and approx 150 starlings flying past. Hide three – 1 common gull past. 9 species of birds huddled up along the bank including 28 shoveler, 10 teal, 4 gadwall, mallards, 63 wigeon, 4 cormorants, 1 dunlin, 1 common redshank and a Canada goose. Mute swan cygnet dead in the grass opposite the hide. Unusual first sighting for me of the redshank walking over the back of a roosting female mallard to get to the front.

Main sighting: Goldeneye

2f-Goldeneyes on Priors lagoon.11h00

Main sighting: Bittern

A Bittern seen flying over Nash Road in the direction of Uskmouth between Picked Lane and Great Traston Meadows.

Main sighting: Goosander

Male and female goosander on the river between 8 and 9am.

Also lots of robins, goldfinches, chaffinches, wood pigeons and magpies along the banks with grey wagtails and dippers in the shallows.

Main sighting: Jack Snipe et.

Jack Snipe between Black Rock and St. Pierre Pill plus 75 Wigeon and 10 Curlew.

NEDERN: Pintail 33, Shoveler 13, Teal 123, Wigeon 119, Mallard 20, Coot 9, Lapwing 17, Redshank 9, Little Egret 2, Grey Heron 2, Little Grebe 1, Black-headed Gull 300+.

Main sighting: Dunlin

1030 – 1230 hrs walk from Saltmarsh lane to lighthouse – bullfinches, 250 + wigeon on tideline, 200 shelduck, 80 curlew, 6 grey plover, several flocks of dunlin, largest at 600 heading to Goldcliff at 1100 hrs total @ 1500, 8 oystercatchers, one pair stonechat, 4 cettis calling, single lapwing, reedbeds very quiet.

Main sighting: Finch bonanza

A flock of at least 10 hawfinch in the churchyard at Mitchel Troy this morning. Very mobile, zooming in and out of yews, but a flock of 6 seen well in the tops of some alders along the Trothy. Also, and perhaps even more surprising, was a flock of at least 10 greenfinch. Finally, a flock of c. 25 siskin, again feeding in the alders and also around the conifers.