sorry, another late one from Saturday 2nd sept ( I’ve just got to grips with logging into the sightings page 🤔)  A lone Swift over Porth, the latest I can recall.

Late post from 13.00 Friday 1st sept , 3 Red kites just off A48 near Pyle. I was driving at the time but later checked on map and they would have been in the area near the quarry.

I was very fortunate to catch up with the Lesser Yellowlegs this afternoon during its brief visit to Kenfig Pool. Here’s hoping it is relocated.

 

Lesser Yellowlegs has just this minute been reported at Kenfig Pool on the E. Pool shore, found by Neil Donaghy. Nice one! Timed 16:28.

A quick walk on the beach just now (12 noon) down the boat launching lane, in spite of the wind, and the lifeguards’ board describing conditions as “very wet very windy very miserable”, there were at least 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 1 Sandwich Tern associating with a larger group of mainly Black-headed Gulls.

Dave Morris

 

This morning at Coed Gwilym Park(Clydach) nice foraging flock of Great Tit(c 10),Blue Tit(c 10),Coal Tit(c 8),Long Tailed Tit(c 15) and Goldcrest(c 6).A light aircraft put up  Mistle Thrush(12) from the side of Graig Ola. This afternoon House Martin(12) and Common Swift(1) hawking above Clydach.

There was a Whinchat in the snipe paddock, plus several Chiffchaffs, single Mistle Thrush in W paddock and a fem Sparrowhawk flew across there, Little Grebe fishing in W lake and 2 pairs of Buzzards circling.

A Peregrine flew low over Swansea Beach yesterday evening towards Singleton Park, and a Wheatear was on the beach near the Civic Centre.  A Clouded Yellow and a Painted Lady were in the dunes a couple of days ago.

Yellow wagtail yesterday. More info and photos here.

 

Radyr Floodplain- 1 Whinchat was the highlight this morning. Also 1 Stonechat, 1 Tree Pipit and single Swift over.

Forest Farm- 1 Sedge Warbler from hide (first for me here for a few years), plus 3+ Buzzard, Peregrine and Sparrowhawk overhead.

paid my respects to the woodchat shrike at 1pm then went to penclawdd pill birds seen were 120 redshank 10 lapwing 45 b h gulls 1 greenshank, 1 bar tailed godwit,1 common sandpiper and little egret

Highlights of today’s GBC field trip to Aberthaw and Gileston included 15+ Yellow Wagtail in fields behind the Gileston coast path, 3 Peregrines including 2 eating a kill, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Wheatear, Stock Dove and Yellowhammer.

On the beach birds seen included Little Egret, Grey Heron, Curlew, Dunlin, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper and Oystercatcher.

Thanks to all participants and to Alan Rosney for leading the field trip.

Full species list (53 Species): Canada Goose, Mallard, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Cormorant, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Kestrel, Peregrine, Moorhen, Coot, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Feral Pigeon, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Raven, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Skylark, Sand Martin, Swallow, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Wren, Starling, Blackbird, Robin, Wheatear, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Yellow Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Rock Pipit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Linnet, Bullfinch and Yellowhammer.

Good numbers of tree pipits, grasshopper warbler, a few garden warbler today. Over 500 birds captured by the ringing team in the past week. For more information and photos, see LINK

pic below: garden warbler

 

2 swifts. Over the house this afternoon yesterday a perigrine upsetting the local feral pigeon flock in neath town center and a red. Kite over Britton ferry

Kingfisher at tidal pool at Bendrick Rock this morning. Also there a Little Egret, Common Sandpiper and hunting Kestrel.

A Wheatear on the playing fields between Sully and Swanbridge. On Sully beach 30 Ringed Plover, 29 Turnstone and a Grey Heron.

2 whinchat were a treat lunchtime today

A lone Swift over Penygraig this evening is my latest summer record here.

Whilst carrying out a WCBS (Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey) in the square, I noticed 4 Spotted Flycatcher feeding in the woods overlooking the River Ogmore. This was at about 1350h when a very brief light rain shower sent me a present in the form of 2 Yellow Wagtail low over calling, heading towards Merthyr Mawr. The survey itself was uneventful just a few Small White, Large White and a Speckled Wood, the highlight being two cracking Beautiful Demoiselle flying low along the Ewenny near Cobbles.

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.