Flock of 5 Cranes high over at 14.45 heading west. Heavily cropped pic to follow when I get home
Upper shot uncropped image @500mm for reference – they were high!
Flock of 5 Cranes high over at 14.45 heading west. Heavily cropped pic to follow when I get home
Upper shot uncropped image @500mm for reference – they were high!
Glamorgan Bird Club 
That’s very interesting Peter. I gave just had an e-mail from a former contributor to the old sightings pages who said he saw 6 flying over St Athan yesterday in an easterly direction at 13:10, constantly calling. That would see to imply that they dropped in somewhere overnight.
and there’s now a lonesome Crane somewhere!
That lonesome individual may be the one that was seen east of Saltmarsh Lane near Goldcliff today! (per BirdGuides)
Excellent record Peter. Could you send me the photos please for the GRC archives. Many thanks Jake.
Fab – heading west eh!
As has been pointed out on Twitter, they are almost certainly from the Great Crane Project reintroduction programme – had completely forgotten about that!
Well spotted, great shots for that height.
Should have said,
There were a couple of cranes up at Slimbridge again today, almost certainly up from the Somerset Levels back to where they were hatched. There must be a fair number that fly over us on the way up there. Not surprised we miss them if they fly that high.