Over the past two days: 5 yellow-browed warblers, 8 chiffchaff, a late reed warbler (this was checked for Blyth’s etc), 2 blackcaps among fifty birds ringed.

For more information and photos, see: http://gowerbirdringinggroup.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/oxwich-marsh-15-october-2016-late.html

Woodcock(1)flushed just after the lower reservoir,Mallard(7),Grey Heron(1),Dipper(1),RingOuzel(2),Redwing (67+),Mistle Thrush(6), Song Thrush(6),Blackbird (19),Blackcap(1), Kestrel (1), Sparrowhawk(1),  Red Kite(3),Bullfinch(12),Chaffinch(15).Also Great,Blue,Coal and Long Tailed Tit,Goldcrest,Robin,Dunnock,Wren and Meadow Pipit.

Here’s a shot from late morning at Kenfig. Unfortunately we hear it flew off west over the reedbeds around three o clock.

Of note: 1 Cetti’s heard, 6 Meadow Pipits, Female Stonechat. Very brief silhouette of snipe shaped bird (probably a snipe then), M bulfinch. Impressive arrival of c120 Canada geese flying in to the bay.

2 Turnstone John Batchelor Way

Penarth: Unusual to see pair of chaffinch in garden and a grey wagtail briefly attempt the feeders.

4 YB Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff & 9 Goldcrest this morning (all ringed). Jack snipe with 6 common snipe in marsh

up to 200, in small groups every evening over Canton moving to roost.

BS strutting out in the sun at 2:30 this afternoon. A very accommodating bird.

The hybrid resembling Lsr Scaup was showing much more clearly this morning and was obviously a hybrid. Also present was a Shoveler pair, a Teal, 3 Stonechats around the flower patch, 3 calling and singing Chiffchaffs and a fox scrambled out from under the boardwalk.

This Baird’s Sandpiper on Kenfig east pool shore was an excellent find by Neil Donaghy this morning.

Drake Gadwall at the reedbed edge behind the posts in the West Lake bay at Cosmeston this morning. 2 Stonechat in the Snipe field and another 2 alongside Sully Brook. A Peregrine over Cogan wood, and a Marsh Tit in the wood, pathside roughly half way through.

A Wheatear on the edge of BP playing fields in Sully this morning, where a large mixed flock of House Martins and (mostly) Swallows was feeding on disturbed insects as the pitches were being mown.

2 Snipe at the unlikely location of Cadoxton rivermouth this evening at high tide.

Watermill flood, 47 teal.

Portobello island, kingfisher, two grey wagtail, two common sandpiper, three redshank, little egret, pied wagtails, cormorant, usual gulls , mute swan

 

Looks like the Lsr Scaup is back at the far end of the reserve from the boardwalk.But the nail looks bigish, maybe a hybrid.

A record shot of yesterday’s Dotterel in ploughed fields east of Cwm Nash. It was quite perky in the beautiful late evening sunshine. Hopefully it will still be there today for more folk to see. Also present a female Pheasant, a Wheatear, 32 Linnet and 2 Chough.

Popped into the marsh to fill my feeders.

There was a YB warbler calling close by, which I subsequently watched flitting around in a willow. I then went to check a wet area for snipe, and heard another calling from inaccessible scrub. Finally I went to the South Pond hide and had a YB warbler in with blue tits, a chiffchaff and a few goldcrest. The YB showed very well. All likely to be different birds as seen in very quick succession, not actively moving through, and in areas at least several hundred metres apart.

I then had to go to work. Given three birds in 30 minutes, I would imagine that there is a good chance of finding YBs anywhere around the village or in the scrub around the edge of the marsh this morning.

A Dotterel was found this afternoon by Richard Smith in a ploughed coastal field south-east of Cwm Nash at approximately SS 9101 6967.

Red Kite 1 and Yellow-browed Warbler heard but not seen in Sycamores. Also lots of Red Admirals many Small Whites and a Painted Lady.

3 Stonechat (1m,2f) and c.200 Canada Geese on The reserve.

3 p.m. this afternoon I was out in the garden, when alerted by a high pitched strident call, heard only Sunday on the GBC Portland trip. Ran inside to get my bins and was soon on to a Yellow-browed Warbler feeding with Chiffchaff in the trees that overhang the old railway line which is now a public path. Didn’t appear to stay long – I lost it in the canopy fairly quickly although the Chiffie was still around 30 mins later.

Pair of Stonechat this morning, on the snipe paddock fence. 1 Green ‘Pecker in W paddock and 20+ House Martin over there, and many juv Swalllows. Ad Little Grebe on W lake.

A ringtail Hen Harrier flew in off the sea at Dunraven Bay and continued heading inland.

Marcross: a Yellow-browed Warbler was in osiers by the brook, south-west of the church, SS919690. This will be a different bird than that seen yesterday north-east of the village, about a kilometre away.