A good arrival today on Kenfig Pool and nice find by Paul Parsons and Dean McCeachen. Hopefully it will stay for Glamorgan Bird Club’s guided walk on Saturday morning (9am-12)

Up to two yellow-browed warblers remained in the copse to the south side of the reserve centre all day. Some of us were lucky and got pretty good views but for others the birds were frustratingly illusive. A bird was still calling as I left around 5pm. A group of crossbills flew over in the gloom at 8.30am and two wheatears followed me round while I was working in the tractor west of the pool.

A record shot of Neil’s fantastic cattle egret with sheep this afternoon. Many thanks to the hard working foot soldiers who tracked the bird down out on the dunes.

It was a step too far for my mediocre photography skills but here are some attempts at pictures of one of the two hobbies that spent much of the day hunting dragonflies on the west side of Kenfig Pool.

Four redwings flew over my garden early this morning.

Red-throated diver and grey plover at high tide this morning. Three whinchats were at Pink Bay pond and about 20 wheatear were about on the farm and point.

Marsh tit caught by the pool this morning. As far as we know it’s the first ringed at Kenfig. We also caught three grasshopper warblers and a garden warbler in a total of about 50 birds. A green sandpiper and two common sandpipers were on the east shore (per ND), the GWE was still present and the first two tree pipits of the summer/autumn flew over.

Good to do a bit of birding with Graham Roblin. Five whimbrel were on the farm’s eastern fields. A breeding-plumaged knot was at Sker Point. In addition, c35 turnstone, redshank and 2 sanderling. Two Sandwich terns were feeding between Pink Bay and Sker Point and a distant little owl was perched up nicely on one of the farm buildings.

A greenshank was at Kenfig Pool this morning. Four black-tailed godwits flew over the saltmarsh/reedbed and the/a great white egret flew off from the saltmarsh towards Kenfig Pool at lunch-time.

Bird showed well, in front of the southern hide this afternoon. At about 5.30pm it flew to reeds on the north bank and out of sight.

Nice to have a cuckoo calling all day by the pool. It’s been several years since we’ve had that. The final two cygnets appear to have died but the great crested grebe chicks are still there.

A little tern was sat on the beach this afternoon and a male whinchat was sat on the haul road fence near the sandy rejuvenation area.

Two Arctic skuas and a great northern diver flew up channel on a rising tide this morning. There were at least 13 purple sandpipers and 17 whimbrels on the rocks between Sker and Pink Bay.

Only one Glamorgan site in top 3 so far but the cream will rise to the top…

Record digiscoped shot of male Dartford Warbler on the farm this morning. Unsuitability of habitat and drizzly weather with south-easterly winds suggest this was a bird on the move looking to find some heathland habitat.

Glaucous gull still prent. Also 5 purple sandpipers, 2 grey plover, over 600 golden plover and a peregrine.