Much the same as Ceri, except 2 Wheatear along the shoreline rocks by Captain’s Wife and a total of c. 20 Rock Pipits along that stretch of coast, and c.10 Pied Wags. Also 1 Common Sandpiper at Captains Wife end.

Two Little Egrets one adult in full BP and a juvenile also; 106 Coot at the north end of the lake alone. A lesser B/B Gull took a chick off a coot nest and was set about by the adults. Big punch-up, at one time it looked as thought the Coot would drown the gull but it few of. We did not see what happened to the chick which, was very small some perhaps the gull managed to swallow it. We found four colour ringed L B/B Gulls  two at least from the Bristol Gull ringing group.

 

 

Sully Island shortly after high tide this morning: 72 Oystercatcher, 43 Ringed Plover, 12 Turnstone and 2 Curlew. On Sully beach 1 Whimbrel, 25 Turnstone, 3 Ringed Plover and a Redshank.

Three Mediterranean Gulls in Barry Old Harbour, and another 2 on the nearby Barry Island cricket pitch. A Kestrel near the Vale Council’s Dock Offices.

At Gileston 3 Mediterranean Gulls on the beach along with 7+ Curlew, 38+ Oystercatcher, 3 Little Egret and 2 Grey Heron. In the fields and along the coast path behind the beach, 7 Stonechat, 40+ Goldfinch, lots of Linnet, 1 Kestrel, 1 Swift, 2 House Martin and lots of Swallows.

R. Ely by Penarth Marina – 3 Grey Wagtails, 1 Wheatear, 8 Linnet. c.40 or so House Martins still round the houses incl young still calling from nest at the far end.

Cardiff Bay Barrage: 2 Wheatear, 6 Pied Wags, 1 Common Sand on the mud outside the outflow, 2 GC Grebes and another GC Grebe with 2 fully grown young round by The Lookout cafe.

Here’s the full list from today’s Monthly bird walk.

With many thanks to Strinda Davies, our leader.

Woodpigeon, Magpie, Collared Dove, Swallow, Sand Martin, Jackdaw, Herring Gull, Black- Headed Gull, Great Black-Backed Gull, Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Grey heron, Cormorant, House Sparrow, Greenfinch, Carrion Crow, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Chiff Chaff, Willow Warbler, Goldcrest, Blackcap, Mute Swan, Long-tailed Tit, Meadowpipit, Jay, Goldfinch, Wren, Kestrel, Common Whitethroat, Bullfinch, Mallard, Linnet, Redshank, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Stonechat, Kingfisher, Coot, Songthrush, Starling, Robin, Buzzard. 43

22 people attended the GBC monthly walk at Kenfig this morning. Highlights were 2 Dunlin and 2 Ringed Plover on E pool beach plus a lone Redshank. 2 imm Stonechats were in pool side  bushes, plus a smart imm Common Whitethroat [and another elsewhere], c.40 Sand Martin over the pool. 43 species seen.

There was a black tailed godwit, 10 goosander and 4 common sandpiper on the river at Portobello with 8 greylags.

A redstart was on the green lane from Ogmore to Norton Farm

In Pant Norton there was a lesser whitethroat, 4 common whitethroat good numbers of willow warbler and 2 chiff chaff

Report of  Spot Fly at Cosmeston today from a member of the public messaging GBC on FB with photos. Somewhere up the RH side of the park [red route?]. I’m guessing E paddock top end.

Small numbers of common migrants moving through of late including garden warbler, tree pipit (below) and grasshopper warbler. For latest ringing news see LINK

This morning’s rising tide at Barry Old Harbour flushed a Redshank and Curlew from the vegetation. Also there an adult Mediterranean Gull, an immature Great Black-backed Gull and 3 Little Egret.

Colour-ringed Black-headed Gull (Yellow 2PSX) was in the high tide roost near the causeway. Paul Roper of North Thames Gull Group kindly sent me details of its ringing history:
Ringed in Essex on 12th March 2016, it was next recorded just over 3 weeks later on 4th April 2016 in North Germany near the Danish border. On 11th November 2016 it was back in the UK, recorded at the Knap Lake, Barry. Six months later, on 10th May 2017 it was seen in Finland, and today it was back in Barry. You can see a map of its travels here:
http://www.ntgg.org.uk/cgi-bin/map.cgi?p=recmap&t=r&r=EZ55072

A Common Tern was briefly at Bendrick Rock this morning, before heading off up channel. At high tide 3 Common Sandpiper and a Little Egret were present.

Sightings from this morning’s WeBS count included a Cattle Egret (first site record), 6 Little Egrets, 10 Goosanders, 2 Green Sandpipers and 3 Kingfishers.

The Little stint reported on Twitter y’day [found by Matt Meehan], was still present this morning at high tide, until 13:00 at least, associating with Ringed Plovers. Telescope essential! Thx to the RSPB bods there at lunchtime for the look through their scope. Local patch tick 🙂

Did my WeBS this morning. Highlight was Kingfisher. Good to see Moorhen with 3 young and Mute Swans with 5 cygnets. Last month, I counted 209 Canada Geese, this month only 31. Perhaps they’ve gone on their summer hols.

Cosmeston this morning: in the far LH corner of W paddock approx here: click for map 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 4 Blackcap incl 1 imm male, 1 imm Common Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting, several each of Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler, and a light passage of Swallows > west. On W lake c.20 Sand Martin and ad GCG with 3 chicks on its back, and on E lake ad GCG with slightly larger chicks in the water.

Nearly forgot – a Goshawk was over W paddock, trying to see off a Common Buzzard. Gos last seen heading towards the golf course. Also forgot – 3 drake Tufties on W lake my first this autumn.

Yesterday: 4-5 tree pipits, garden warbler, kingfisher. Almost 150 birds ringed this week. For more information follow the LINK

One of the GCG pair at Cossie this morning, with some free-riding humbugs 🙂 There are 2 pairs with young present. In the far LH corner of W paddock there were 2 fem Blackcap, an imm Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffies, male Bullfinch and Long-t-Tit.

2 nightjars at 21.25. They were hunting within 20 metres of my location for a minute or two then moved off and churring started.

Quite busy in Pant Norton this morning. Sightings included Redstart, Garden Warbler, Tree Pipit [2], Lesser Whitethroat [3], Common Whitethroat [35], Blackcap [25], Chiffchaff [15], Willow Warbler [5], Nuthatch, Coal Tits, Yellowhammers, Bullfinches, Stonechats and a Swift.

At Barry Old Harbour this morning about 2 hours after high tide: 1 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 2 juvenile Dunlin, 1 Little Egret, 1 adult Mediterranean Gull, 85+ Black-headed Gulls, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Cormorant, 2 House Martins and a fly over Mute Swan en route to the Knap lake.

Earlier:

Sully Island/Swanbridge: 20 Ringed Plover, 4 Turnstone, 6 Curlew, 2 Whimbrel, 11 Oyks (all on Sully Island), 1 Green Woodpecker in trees behind Captain’s Wife/Swanbridge Farm.

Sully beach/playing fields: 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Sanderling, 18 Turnstone, 13 Ringed Plover, 2 Rock Pipit and 5+ Pied Wagtail.

It appears there was a Spot Fly at Cosmeston this morning – per Twitter.