Sightings

Main sighting: Pair of glossy ibis

Pair of glossy ibis, following a single bird sighted a year ago.

Main sighting: Dipper

42 species on my lockdown walk from home. Dipper on River Clydach on the edge of town near the top of the gorge. Male Goosander over our house is anew record for the garden list. Happy New Year.

Main sighting: Kingfisher

Short walk early afternoon Kingfisher gazing hopefully into the river. First species of the year was a Dunnock in the garden.

Main sighting: Blackcap

Pair of Blackcap perched up in garden hedge scrub between Caird and Green street this morning

Main sighting: redwing

flock of 50 +redwing feeding along hedgerow and on adjacent field

Main sighting: treecreepers

2 pairs of treecreepers – one in St Mellons golf club, the other at Peterstone golf club; so perhaps golf clubs have something to offer wildlife. Also large group (40) fieldfares enjoying the fareway. 6 little egrets, 2 pairs of swans, one grey heron and a buzzard at the site of the proposed Wentloog solar farm … kestrel at St Mellons railway line; also mistle thrushes (5), grey and pied wagtails together, and meadow pipit.

Main sighting: Little Egrets

A group of 12 little egrets on the shallows between flooded river and the oxbow, also a pair of goosander and 2 little grebe

Main sighting: Redpoll

Redpoll, gsw, 2 wrens, 11 ravens buzzard, 70 common gulls

Main sighting: Lapwing

With the Avon Llwyd bursting it’s banks again for the 2nd time In 12 months and the first times.since 1986 .We are used to seeing the local birds particularly gulls on the fields but a first for me was seeing 18 lapwing and a little egret amongst them plus the usual goosander swimming on the field where the old sandmartin colony got washed away last winter .

Main sighting: Goosander

Male Goosander in the main pond with 35 Mallard

Main sighting: Glossy Ibis

Roadside viewing saw the 2 Glossy Ibis feeding in the far left corner. Also noted were 2 pairs of Tufted Ducks and 3 pairs of Gadwall.

Main sighting: Barnacle Geese

Very quiet on the lagoons today, water level is way too high still for waders (only seen a pair of Black-tailed Godwits briefly). Of note was a male Peregrine passing in front of hide 1 which spooked 5 Common Snipe. Snipe platform – 78 Shoveler, 182 Teal, 121 Wigeon (225 more from the seawall), 1 Gadwall, 3 fem and 2 male Tufted Ducks, 11 Greylags and Ravens. Seawall – no sign of the Black Redstart (Dan Webb reported a fem from Goldcliff Pill which may be the bird which has been loitering around the buildings by the seawall)? 39 Avocet, 71 Oystercatchers, 52 Curlew and 1 Gt Black-backed Gull. Hide 3 – the four Barnacle Geese were in with the Canada’s.