Walking the course boundary tonite.. Med gull in Oxwich (that’s a first for me).. Rock pipit,gbb gull.. And lots of cormorants in the bay.. Its also butterfly city at the moment.. Gatekeepers,common blues,meadow browns,small heaths,skippers….etc etc etc lovelyf

Here’s a picture of the escape seen at Sker in June along with a celebrity confirmation of identification. From Sandra Evans’ blog.

Kingfisher flew under the bridge at Cosmeston this evening, and a Little Egret flew off north from the West Lake reedbed. The 2 well-grown Great Crested Grebe juveniles are still on the West Lake.

Yesterday evening at Cardiff Bay Wetland Reserve at the St Davids Hotel end a Great Crested Grebe was carrying 1 of its 2 young on its back. A Tufted Duck was with its 4 young on one of the rafts.

Greenshank over this morning.

Sightings this morning included juvenile Cuckoo, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper (2), Little Ringed Plover (5), Swift (3), Grey Wagtail and Sedge Warbler. 

71 Sedge Warblers and 20 Reed Warblers were ringed yesterday morning. A Goshawk flying over was unexpected.

Goshawk flew over this morning (GJJ)

65 redshank plus 1 greenshank in peclawdd pill. 10 sandwich tern (3 juvs) and 2 juv med. gulls at port eynon

Llanwonno yesterday 30th July – Barn Owl at 21:40 showing well was a nice surprise as I waited for the first of the Nightjars.  Minimum of 3 Nightjars heard and seen from 21:50.

Lisvane yesterday (29th): 1 ad yellow-legged gull among a decent roost of 128 LBB gulls, 9 herring gulls and a single BH gull. Wildfowl dispersal continues, with 142 tufties, 6 pochard, 66 coots, 5 GC grebes, 2 adult and 1 large juv little grebes, 1 ad and 2 large juv moorhens, 8 Canadas, 3 mallards and 2 mute swans.

Our report to NRW on wildfowl counts at Lisvane Reservoir across the last winter period, is available here:

http://lisvanewildlife.wordpress.com

Llanishen today (30th): Highlight was confirmation of breeding of tufted duck at Llanishen Reservoir -a female with 5 small ducklings. 3 other tufties, 1F teal, 2 adult little grebes with at least 2 large chicks (1st brood) and at least 1 small chick (i.e. 2nd brood). Also 11 Canadas, 12 coots and a pied wag.

hi all just a bird related post but not a sighting 

can you pass this on im doing a little challenge / survay about birds in the garden 

i have made a page on facebook for people across south wales to post what they see on their bird feeders whatever time a day and they can post as many times as they like along with where their location is and what day, and hopefully with enough people across south wales and if people hopefully posts on here i can gather this information and see whats thriving and whats declining in our gardens and also what wildlife is around too.

im setting myself this task because its nice to help or attract people into start looking after their wildlife

so please with your help can you share this link thank you i know it may be pointless but its a bit of fun for people as well 🙂

https://www.facebook.com/SouthWalesGardenBirdWatch

Not a great deal around today but the highlights were single Green Sandpiper and a single Greenshank from the new elevated hide.

2 red kites high over village and another in a tussle with a buzzard on the road toward felindre
Swansea vale
16 Canada geese and a lapwing on the new ponds near the river and 42 wood pigeons feeding nearby

Apologies for late posting, but we saw a juv Common Cuckoo on the north side of the Marsh road between Llanrhiddian and Wernffrwd yesterday late morning.

As Emma was checking the moth trap this morning she got an added bonus – a Yellow Wagtail as it flew south calling.

No sign of harriers this morning.. Lots of grey heron,little egret and hirundines overhead

The first real signs of wader passage this morning with single juvenile Little Ringed Plover, Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Redshank and Whimbrel on the East Pool Shore and two Little Egrets over going south.

Fenrod lake morning
27 mute swan 31 Canada geese 40+ black h gulls
Abaravon beach to docks along the river
150+ black h gulls 1 curlew 1 redshank 7 mute swan male stonechat 20 + house sparrows 30+ starlings an adult med gull flying into port talbot docks and one sitting on the east beach 2 adult common gulls on the beach the feral white goose on the river
Quays to bagan bay with bob anderson
40+ curlew 12 redshank 1 common sandpiper 300+ black h gulls 2 wheatear 9 long tailed tits and a chiff chaff with them a perigrine on baglan bay tower 2 heron 4 goldfinch 2 meadow pipits

Turnstone x 4 on rocks, Ringed Plover, Common Gull and Mediterranean Gull.
Eider juvenile present again just offshore. Few passing Gannets and Cormorants. 
Sandwich Tern x 12 and an Arctic Tern close on rocks, along with 10 Oystercatchers. 
Manx Shearwater x 7, Curlew, Swift, and Whitethroat. 

A Clouded Yellow was in the extreme NE corner of the east paddock this morning, and a Stoat was by the central path level with the N end of the west paddocks. Newly hatched pr of Coot chicks by the cafe boardwalk. Also, this below. Rubbish phone pic as the white is burnt out, but this is the white form of the normally pink Centaury.

Forgot – there was a Willow Warbler in the W paddock hedgerow.