Sparrowhawk 1 Linnet 4 Green Woodpecker 2 (I Juv) Sandmartin 2 Swallow 20 House Martin 10 Oystercatcher 6 Rock Pipit 1
Butterflies: Holly Blue 4 Common Blue 2 Comma 3 Painted Lady 1 Red Admiral 2 Large White 6 Speckled Wood 8 Grayling 1 Gatekeeper 12
Blackcap 5 Willow warbler 1 Chiffchaff 3 Linnet 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Raven 1 Bullfinch 1 Butterflies: Ringlet Speckled Wood Meadow Brown and not a single dragonfly.
A short visit this afternoon produced a Hobby. Nothing else of note showing in very windy conditions.
Ring Ouzel 1 Tree Pipit 1 Meadow Pipit 10 Raven 2 Red Kite 1 Buzzard 1 Peregrine 1 Stonechat 3 Wheatear 1 in the woods below Pied Flycatcher 2 Willow Warbler 4 Blackcap 3 Chiffchaff 1
Dunnock 18 mostly singing males Carrion Crow 70 loose flock in ploughed field Rook 3 Buzzard 1 Greenfinch 6 Chiffchaff 2
Black Redstart 1 (male) Kingfisher 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Pied Wagtail 1 Common Gull 1 Cormorant 16 many in BP Great Crested Grebe 1 Redshank 4
Blackcap 2 females Black Redstart 1 male Turnstone 8 Redshank 3 Kingfisher 1 Great B/B Gull 1 Common Gull 1
Little Grebe 1 Great Crested Grebe 1
13th December
Adult Yellow-legged Gull at the lake and 4 un-crippling views of Hawfinch and the forest.
Raven 2 Red Kite 3 Buzzard 4 Stonechat 1 Green Woodpecker 1 biggest surprise was a Peacock Butterfly at 1000f above sea level in November just!
Lesser Scaup 1 drake with 148 Tufted Ducks Kingfisher 1 Kestrel Water Rail heard Turnstone 4 Linnet 40 Rock Pipit 1 Gulls Greater B/B 4 Lesser B/B Herring and Black-headed.
Swallow 8 heading SW Greenfinch flock of 40 Linnet 20 Grey Wagtail 2 Grey Heron 1 in field near church
Hobby chasing the hirundines lots passing through. And a Wheatear perched on a hay bail in the middle of a field.
Not many birds at the reserve today but a juvenile Green Woodpecker fed outside the north hide for 40 minutes.
Warblers still singing: Chiffchaff 2 Blackcap 3 Willow Warbler 1 Garden Warbler 1 no dragonflies.
For those that are not aware, and I am sure most are, clicking on the photographs lets you view them in a larger impressive format.
Neath Canal Garden Warbler 1 Willow Warbler 2 Blackcap 4 Chiffchaff 2 Goosander female two duckings. Dragonflies: Large Red Damselfly + Azure Blue Damsel Fly 20 Beautiful Demoiselle 2 Butterflies: Green-veined
White 6 Orange Tip 1
Tree Pipit 1 Willow Warbler 4 Chiffchaff 3 Blackcap 4 Linnet 2 and Large Red Damselfly 1
I am trying again John.
Bedwas Raven 2 Peregrine 1
Chiffchaff 1 singing Raven 2 Bullfinch 1 Siskin 2. Frogs and Toad in the pond with plenty of spawn. Butterflies: Brimstone 10 Peacock 3
30 + Mediterranean Gulls (BB) others at Mumbles Blackcap 2 females near coastal path. Spent an hour looking for Ross’s Gull late afternoon-no joy again! There was no sign of the Little Gulls either. On Blackpill Beach one dead of each Razorbill Guillemot and Kittiwake. A Mediterranean Gull at BB had a white ring on left leg with number 25 on it, I could not make out if there were other numbers.
Glamorgan Bird Club 
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