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.

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

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.