Goshawk x1, Red Kite x2, Buzzard x4, Raven x2.

Small ssw movement on Saturday, 3,000 in one hour but petering out as cloud increased.

32 Goldfinches on my garden feeder this morning

A Ring Ouzel was heared calling and seen in flight several times this afternoon but refused to show well and wasnt seen after half two despite further searching.

6 crossbill over

Lsr Scaup, 5 Shovelers (3 m including 1 coming out of eclipse, 2 f), and a Cetti’s showed very well close off the boardwalk, calling not singing. A Kingfisher was in Hamadryad ‘pond’ and 2 Cetti’s off the Taff Embankment, 1 singing. Yesterday there were 3 Common Gulls on the orange buoys on the barrage.

Llanishen: Highlight was a female goldeneye -my first of the winter here and my first on Llanishen Reservoir post-drainage. More tufties on Llanishen (37) than on Lisvane Reservoir today (18). Also visible were 2 teal, 6 mallard, 2 little grebes, c30 redwings, and a flock of 24 linnets.

Lisvane: business as usual: 18 tufties, 4 pochard, 2 mutes, 36 Canadas, 8 mallards, 8 little grebes, 4 GC grebes, 53 coots etc. Steady passage of hundreds of wood pigeons heading west.

Roath Park Lake: 1 shoveller, 2 teal and impressive numbers of coots, e.g. 142 in a single loose flock at the north end,

A 1st winter female firecrest and a blackcap were the best of this morning’s catch.  More here:

http://gowerbirdringinggroup.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/oxwich-marsh-1-november-2014.html

Yesterday a visiting birder reported a purple sandpiper on the lifeboat station slip at Mumbles

This morning Dark-bellied Brent Goose and Black-tailed Godwit on the lower estuary, nine Grey Herons at the Watermill, plus 110 Redwings in Pant Norton.

55+ redshank at high tide a few goldfinch and meadow pipits and of interest 3 clouded yellows

Quite a bit of activity on Sully Beach this morning with Lol Middleton.

Lots of pied wagtails and Rock pipits, a meadow pipit, a flock of 40 or so Greenfinch with the odd Linnet and goldfinch thrown in. A kestrel overhead.

On the beach a Grey Plover, reasonable pic at
http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/waders/h25d528e4#h25d528e4

and couple of shots of the Purple Sandpiper that Lol saw yesterday at
http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/waders/h25d528e4#h2da6a5b0

The Purp’ was in with the flock of ringed plovers again so it may hang round for another day or two. I’ve not seen one of these at Sully and it was Lol’s first on there for 20 years.

I did get another interesting shot at
http://andyburnsphotography.zenfolio.com/bif/h2bc07951#h2bc07951
which shows how difficult it can be looking at flocks of birds in the air. This is only half the flock and is primarily ringed plovers but with the grey plover, the purple sand and a slightly out of focus turnstone in the shot as well.

A late wheatear was near the point and 5 purple sandpipers were roosting on Ffynon-wen at high tide this morning.

1-Great Grey Shrike at the northern cleared area.1-Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at the stream area near to centre.09h50-11h15

S/pl Great Northern Diver still present off the pier.  Catching crabs this morning.

Peregrine very active over Mumbles Hill at the moment – lots of wood pigeon and starling moving, and some big flocks of jackdaw up there too.

23 oystercatcher roosting on the Middle Head, 17 Med gull at Bracelet Bay, 3 shag on the outer island.

A yellow-browed warbler was with a small flock of foraging tits yesterday.  There are lots of tit/crest flocks moving around the scrub in the dunes and the trees in the village at present.

Also a clouded yellow butterfly and a late swallow.

A summary of the last two ringing sessions is here: http://gowerbirdringinggroup.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/oxwich-marsh-28-30-october-2014-3000.html

In Hamadryad ‘pond’, a Cetti’s and Water Rail both showed briefly but well at 10.30am and a pair of Kestrels over. In the reserve, a Lsr Scaup, 3 Shoveler (2m,1f), 1 Pochard, 1 Teal, and 2 Stonechat (m,f).

In amongst the Turnstones. The first I have seen here in 20 years.

The summer plumage gnd still between pier and Verdi’s this morning. Also merlin flying back and fore hunting around the islands

2 short-eared owls at RGW this afternoon

A summer plumaged great northern diver close in to the pier this afternoon, and a 1st winter / female black redstart on the lighthouse island.

Peregrine and sparrowhawk over Mumbles Hill, and a good passage of starling and skylark.

Eider (female) off West Cross