Red kite over lansdowne road and cowbridge road heading north east. Not a bad garden tick!

Common gull amongst the usual gulls, gadwall (4), pochard (c12), GC Grebe (5), goldcrest, fieldfare (3), redwing (10), male reed bunting singing from boardwalk reedbed.

20+ redwing around the treetops, grey wagtail by the pond.

Peregrine in the floodlights/ninian stand roof 2nd half. Also 26000 noisy bluebirds and 1500 mute swans!

4 crossbill over calling as I was in the garden this morning

1515 – Hobby rapidly heading south along River Taff

1m 2f goosander in flight over River Taff

Several skylark calling high over heading north east, 2 groups of 3 and others heard but not seen

Lots of migration this morning. Thousands and thousands of swallows heading out over the channel in a steady stream, hundreds by each minute. Also smaller numbers of house martins. Large numbers of meadow pipit overhead or alighting in fields before heading off, also a few skylark, pied wags, flocks of linnet and Siskin. Plenty of chiffchaff in the hedgerows and roadside bushes. Also kestrel, sparrowhawk and buzzard.

Late posting for 12 Aug – very large accipiter lowish over junction with A468 at Nantgarw, first impressions were buzzard based on size – 90% certain Goshawk.

19 Aug – one junction further south at Tongwynlais – Peregrine attacking Buzzard, spectacular scenes.