Red kite flew over at Lunch time today upsetting a couple of gulls.

Glaucous gull in the breeze near Porthcawl Lifeboat Station.

A kittiwake was feeding on discarded bait from the boat while fishing in the bay. A diver species flew up channel.

11.00 to 13.00 Jay 5, only 2 chough, peregrine, 2 ravens, and 3 clouded yellow. The highlight was a juvenile hobby sitting on a telegraph pole on the way back to Bridgend.

Greenshank 2, common sandpiper 3, yellow wagtail 1, and little egret 1 were the birds of note this morning.

While doing a cetacean survey from Stenna Europe we had good birding but poor cetaceans. The highlight was a great shearwater (with grainy but convincing photo). Other birds were a black guillemot in Fishguard Harbour, about 4 great skuas, 1 arctic skua and a hooded crow in Rosslare.

Juvenile fulmar still on the ledges. Some fluffy some well feathered.

Rock pipit feeding juvenile perched on the stone walls of the marina.

2 sandwich terns perched on the Fairy Buoy 1/2 mile S off Porthcawl Breakwater and 2 gannets over Tusker Rock this afternoon

A chiff chaff was in my garden at lunchtime. Jackdaws nesting in two chimneys and a blackbird on eggs in the Bay Tree.

I did a cetacean survey on Stenna Europe and at 9.00 am this morning there were no black guillemots visible in Rosslare Harbour. Normally at this time of year we would expect a double figure count. Casualties of the storms?

Goldeneye 35, curlew about 40 but disturbed before I could count them, goosander 5 and little egret 1 were the birds of note this afternoon.

Very quiet between Nash Point and Cwm Nash the only birds of note were 2 raven giving an aerial ballet and a few fulmar. There was a lesser tortoiseshell basking on a rock by the stream.

This morning before the Boxing Day crowds descended on the river.

Gadwall 8, turnstone 1, little grebe 7, goldeneye 13, goosander 2, redshank 10 and a little egret.

12 little grebe, 3 turnstone, 5 gadwall, 1 shellduck, 5 goosander and 1 little egret  were of note this morning together with 1 water pipit on the lower estuary

The fulmar are back on the cliffs. There were 10 at Nash Point and 30 at Cwm Nash this morning

An immature black redstart was perched on the second stile heading west from the point this morning.

6 goosander were the highlight this afternoon

There was a purple sandpiper on the usual rocks this morning together with one turnstone and 2 oystercatchers.
4 little grebe were the highlights near Ploran Mawr and 3 chough on Southerndown cliffs.

Redshank 4, little grebe 2. Autumn at last on the Ogmore!