Female tufted duck with 10 young mallard with 6 young coot with 2 young a pair of little grebe

A red kite with about 200 herring and lesser black backs over the tip also seen 2 ravens 3 buzzards a pair of bullfinch with a juv female a whitethroat carrying food a blackcap still singing at nearby tir john pond mallard with 4 young 2 pairs of tufted ducks but no sign of breeding coot with young a little grebe and a singing sedge warbler 

74 wood pigeons 16 Canada geese 24 starlings

45 wood pigeons on the wires over the saltmarsh this evening 

While my better half went shopping in tesco I spent the time by the river afon the sand Martin colony was busy with adults and juvs on show also 6 pied wagtail 4 grey wagtail a dipper and a female goosander sleeping on the exposed rocks not concerned with the nearby traffic or people, better than shopping 

Checked the small sand Martin colony by the mine museum at least 5 family parties involving about 30 birds also of note garden warblers spotted fly a male redstart green woodpecker willow warbler and cuckoo 

Family party of ravens over skewen this afternoon 2 ads 3 young  

2 whitethroats in scrub next to macdonalds Car park Fabian way swansea 

2 reeling grasshopper warblers from the walkway this evening thanks to Alastair flannagan for taking me to them my hearing aid is working well now never thought I would hear one again 

Don’t know what happened to last post 

went to look for the possible purple heron this afternoon no luck other birds seen 5 goosander 4 female 1 male 2 curlew 6 shelduck 50+ herring gulls 40+ lesser b b gulls pairs of linnet goldfinch chaffinch pied wagtails singing blackcaps 1 grey lag and a kingfisher by the canal 

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via Neath saltmarsh.

5 goosander 4 female 1 male 4 Canada geese 6 grey lag geese the feral bar headed goose still with the grey lags 10 shelduck 2 cormorants 4 mallard 4 black headed gulls 20 lesser b b gulls 40 herring gull steady passage of swallows over the marsh 

40 plus pied wagtails roosting on tesco roof neath abbey 2 shelduck in the Brunel Dock 

4 female goosanders on the river afon by the entrance to the docks also there 10 mallards 7 mute swan 2 oyster catchers and a few sand martins 

Kumliens gull there at 2 15 for 5 minutes then flew off with the other gulls in flight all the time 

tir john pool port tenant a pair teal 2 pairs of tufteds a little grebe willow warbler and reed bunting 

Kumliens gull still there at 17 15 also 2 swallows over 

Called in to see the kumliens gull at 1 15 no sign so I went to the amenities tip it was sitting with other 

gulls on waste ground opposite the big sheds it was there for five minutes then flew back to the lake where I saw it again  to get there turn left out of the car park drive a short distance turn right into coronet road drive to the end then follow the tarmac path through the trees turn left the sheds are on your right there are lots of gulls and crows  after the rubbish 14 magpies there today 

evening walk fairly quiet 12 little egrets at the boat club roost 8 shelducks 4 curlews seen but more calling    In the grass redshank calling usual gulls crows robins dunnocks blackbird and meadow pipit 

with bob anderson 

A female wheatear feeding on the strand line near the river otherwise quiet just a few o catchers red shanks 

a buzzard and mallard 

An evening walk had 9 little egrets in the boat club trees , a great crested grebe in the river 300+ starlings flying west 600+ jackdaws behind the council yard 4 cormorants 1 heron 2 shelduck and a nice bonus an otter in the river by the paper factory 

with bob anderson 

A red kite over my garden this afternoon being mobbed by the local jackdaws starlings and gulls

A red kite was over cimla  this afternoon, at baglan playing fields there were 75 black headed gulls 

at Aberavon beach there 5 kittiwakes 3 1st winter 2 adults