Lisvane: plenty of common stuff – 22 little grebes, 4 GC grebes, 57 tufties, 7 pochard, 50 coots, 30 Canadas, 3 cormorants, 7 mallards, 46 LBB gulls, 4 herring gulls, 1 BH gull. Water levels quite low today -2 grey wags on the mud in front of the car park.

Llanishen: Highlight was a water rail calling from the willow carr on the west edge of the main pool, a much earlier first date than last year. 5 common snipe, 4 shoveller, 1 teal, 3 GC grebes, 13 tufties, c10 coots, c10 little grebes, 1 pochard, 5 mallards, 3 moorhens, 3 BH gulls, sparrow hawk, green woodpecker, buzzard, jay, tawny owls very vocal at dusk.