Sightings

Main sighting: Snow Bunting

Snow Bunting showing very well in and around Foxhunters car park

Main sighting: Swans

I saw two swans yesterday from Sudbrook on the Severn but they were to far away to identify near the new bridge on the north side which could have included the Whooper seen today anyway they were on the Gloucester side

Main sighting: Med gull Ad

Mediterranean gull was drifting down stream late pm – Wigeon 153 Black rock

Main sighting: Various

20 brambling with chaffinch nr punchbowl .Merlin x2 in vicinity of Blorenge 3 kestrel fem sprawk 6 buzzard 4 red kite 40 plus fieldfare mippits Raven displaying .green woodpecker and 14 mistle thrush .

Main sighting: Snow Bunting

Snow Bunting on The Blorenge.
Park in Foxhunter car park and take the path towards the Trig. Point. At 1:00 – 2:00 pm it was very close to the path and very (too) confiding.
Also Red Kite over.

Main sighting: White Stork

Disturbed by a neighbour on one of her ponds 1/4 mile from me. She rang me and while on the phone the stork flew around my lake a couple of times at low level,
We both have seen herons on hundreds of ocassions, this bird was larger and flew with v. long neck extended . Not like a heron. we both agreed that this was a stork. sorry no photo

Main sighting: Fieldfare

200 fieldfare flying over Penyclawdd Church also another flock of fifty over Abergavenny and 200 Plus at pwll Ddu later in afternoon with a handfull of redwing .

Main sighting: Fieldfare

200 + flock of fieldfare over Penclawdd heading west plus 50 over abergavenny and another huge flick of 150 plus at pwll ddu .

Main sighting: Hawfinch

A single this afternoon.

Main sighting: Goshawk

Goshawk being mobbed by carrion crows at Bigsweir Bridge about 3pm. Four cranes flying east over Cadora Woods (Glos.) at 11am were presumably over Gwent a few minutes earlier

Main sighting: Goshawk

On the morning tide with a northerly breeze at 6.5deg C : Curlew 4, Redshank 152, Blkwit 3, Knot 15, Dunlin 8, Grey Plover 3, Pintail 114, Shoveler 74, Wigeon 47, Teal 7, Lgrt 2, Cormorant, Sparrow Hawk. From the track back to the car park, a circling Kestrel headed off NE, closely followed by a Goshawk at lower elevation for approx 1/3rd of a mile. Small flocks of finches in the area.

Main sighting: Barn owl

Flew over Nash road near Motorpoint and dropped down into waste ground at about 7pm