first trip out for 3 weeks after knee surgery 250+ oyster catchers in 3 different flocks
21 curlew shelduck with 9 young adult stonechat with juv singing whitethroat a few goldfinch
Juv carrion crows blackbirds with food ,meadow pipits singing skylark herring gulls and lesser.b b gulls with young on the factory roofs
With Bob Anderson

a walk from the Brunel dock to baglan bay the shelduck pair in the dock have nine young left from the original 13 hope they survive ,a pair of whitethroats were by the reed bed dock 35 Canada geese flew over heading north stonechat with young at baglan bay also a male wheatear
Singing skylark meadow pipit with food in its mouth, a 100+ oyster catchers on the spit crumlyn burrows side Also seen 3 little egrets and a heron

A red kite low over the old Briton bridge this morning

a pair of shelducks with nine young in the tidal dock tonight

the neath canal mute swans have nine cygnets,and are spending time near zoars ark pet stores
In Neath hope they all survive pike herons and gulls are all problems while their small

14 shelduck most I’ve seen here ,1 whimbrel,1 curlew,10 Canada geese ,15 grey lags, 3 little egret, 1 kingfisher, 3 singing blackcaps, chiff chaff, 6 mute swan,the swans on the neath canal by the metal box had cygnets today 4+ judging by the photo on Facebook

8 blackcaps 2 female, 10 chiff chaff, 6 willow warbler around the run off pool also coot with 4 young.

on the main pool a common sandpiper and a little egret

20+swallows 10+sand Martin over the lake 11 mute swan 15 Canada geese few pochard still,usual gulls.

nearby amenites tip 200+gulls mostly herring also lesser b backs,also a raven, on the river tawe 10 swallows 15 sand Martin a female goosander grey and pied wagtails

2 pair of tufteds on the run off pool 1 coot a swallow over otherwise ouiet

Brunel dock ,a pair of shelduck 10 redshank 3 oyster catcher and a female bullfinch

Dawn walk this morning drumming g s woodpecker calling green woodpecker 3 nuthatch pair of goldcrest pair of coal tits several blackbirds and song thrush singing ,2 jay 5 calling wood pigeon ,singing chaffinches , robins dunnocks,Wren 5 redwings buzzard carrion crow ,blue and great tits

6 hawfinch  by the bridal path at 1 15  myself and Bob anderson

6 goosanders on the river tawe  3 male 3  female with bob anderson

Main gnoll pond 70+ Canada geese 85 black h gulls 45 mallard 2mute swan 6 coot and a female goldeneye

lower gnoll pond 22 mallard 33 black h gulls 3 mute swan and a little grebe

Fenrod lake 87 Canada geese 14 mute swan 8 pochard 100+ black h gulls 15 coot 25 mallard a few tuftieds 30 + herring gulls a few lesser b b gulls and about 6 commons including the ringed bird with small coloured rings 1 green 1 blue

neath salt marsh very quiet no Canada’s just 2 grey lags

56 black h gulls 28 mallard 1 heron 3 mute swan 2 ads 1juv 2 moorhen and a surprise a little grebe not seen one here before  also in the woods wren dunnock robin blackbird song thrush chaffinch wood pigeon collard dove

Spent an hour around the lake today no sign of the poss caspian gull but a pair of goosander and the usual other gulls and wildfowl tried the nearby amenites tip there were about 300 assorted gulls there but their constantly on the move when the rubbish lorries empty if a few birders were to look there it may be with the gulls there also 21 magpies there
Aberavon with bob anderson 30 black h gulls on baglan playing fields 2 adult med gulls by Francos chip shop on the prom 70+sanderling on the beach a rock pipit and 20 linnets

40+ Canada geese 15 coot including the ringed bird b r x usual other birds including a 2nd winter common gull with small colour rings one green and one blue on each leg I first seen it 16  11 2013 tried euro ring site but no luck also a 1st winter herring gull with a white ring with black writing  0 6 y 7

A male goosander 50+ Canada geese 150 black h gulls usual Pochards tufteds mallard moorhens coots and14 mute swan of interest was a coot with a leg ring b r x anyone know who is ringing coots..? At the nearby amenites tip 22 magpies est 300 herring gulls on the river tawe 3 female goosander

38 Canada geese 1 little egret 1 curlew 11 lapwing 1 little grebe 20 black h gulls 4 redshank

11 little egrets 1 little grebe 4 redshank 10 curlew and a kingfisher

20 magpies and 300+herring gulls at the amenites tip on the nearby river tawe 4 goosander 1 male 3 female