Another first from my garden: Treecreeper finding plenty of insects in one of the ivy-covered Hawthorns along the railway 10am.

12-Snipe,6 on east side of peninsular and 6 on the south-west corner of the island.

27-Little Egrets in fields south of the business park at 15h30.

We enjoyed being able to do our WeBS at last yesterday. Part of the site around the far side of the lake is closed at the moment due to Covid restrictions, so number of sightings are a bit short. Lovely views in the Autumn woodlands, and two brave Great Tits followed us till we gave them some crumbs.

Blackbird, Blue Tit , Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch , Coot Gadwall , Great Tit , House Sparrow Little Grebe, Magpie, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Robin, Shoveler, Teal, Woodpigeon .

Rec’d via email. Black Redstart seen y’day on rocks below docks building at the Cardiff end of the barrage.

22-Little Egrets flew from the island roost at first light.

20-Little Egrets in the fields south of the business park.15h00

Pretty quiet but had my first Fieldfare there this winter, a lone bird in a dead tree in the W lake reed bed. In W lake bay a lonbe Gadwall and 5 Pochard with the Tufties on E lake. A few Redwing flying around and over W paddock.

A couple of crackers this morning, 2 Willow Tits ( a bit early to be paired up I think) attracted by recording and just a few minutes later at the other side of the site, a female Hen Harrier being mobbed by a crow just east of penderyn reservoir.

yesterday, Stonechat and Nuthatch, the latter quite uncommon here.

Canada Geese having a non-socially distanced wash & brush up this morning. The male Stonechat of the more or less permanently present pair was in the snipe paddock together with a female Reed Bunting which wasn’t quite so obliging. Our pooch Poppy [on the left] had a great time in her fave puddle [more a pool at the mo], with a playmate she met this morning. There are a huge number of berries around waiting for big flocks of Thrushes, which haven’t materialised yet – just a few Redwing about – these were particularly bright red.

Misty and murky this morning. A lot of thrushes in the snipe paddock, Blackbirds, several Song Thrush and Redwing. Also this Green ‘Pecker reluctant to show its face [also pretty distant]. In amongst about 100 Black-headed Gulls on W lake, this 1st cal yr Common Gull [massive crop as it was in the middle of W lake]. Cogan Wood has some nice colours.

Yesterday morning . Excellent views of a pair of Kingfishers at Clydach vale country park , one landed in a willow not more than 6 mtrs away from the lakeside path and very tolerant of passing people and dogs. I’ve been here 3 times in the last few weeks and seen them every time. Looking brilliant in the autumn sunshine, I’ll try and get some pics next time I’m there. Also a couple of red head Goosander and a Little Grebe amongst the mallards, Coots and Moorhens.

Walked across the barrage and back. Only thing of note was a pair of Goosander, the female being quite close to the innner barrage, fishing – she caught about 3 small fish which I failed to capture due to a hiccup on the camera settings. The drake was a fair way out in the Bay. The only other things of note were abnotu 5 Gt Crested Grebes. I noticed that the string of orange buoys near the barrage sluices, where any Common Gulls used to rest, have gone. Below, the best pix of the redhead Goosander I managed.

During dog walk this a.m. 10 Swallow over E paddock and a Skylark, another Skylark over W paddock and Redwing there, plus a single Redpoll with Goldfinch by the mile rd near the middle entrance to w paddock. Green Woodpecker just outside E paddock nr play area. Buzzard over Cogan Wood harassed by 20+ Jackdaw.

On Lisvane reservoir – visible from the overlook, but can disappear from view for some time – also common gull White fronted goose reported yesterday from llanishen/lisvane res

Roath park 16+ shoveler, 7 teal, 1 drake wigeon seen couple of days ago

Fair movement again this morning over Leckwith/some birds over Canton.

c 22,200 flying ssw in an hour and a quarter with birds still passing in lower numbers later.

First big movement of autumn as usual over Canton/Leckwith. 45.000 birds passing ssw in two and a half hours.

1m-Goosander on the lake this afternoon,a pretty rare sighting at this location.