Counted 20 med gulls loafing on the rocks at high tide.. All full black head summer plumage… What a stunning sight
Category: Sightings
Gorseinon
Good numbers of swift feeding on flying ants over the house ties evening, about 55, great to see.the local gulls were enjoying the feed also
GWE Still Present at Kenfig
The bird was still present today on the saltmarsh/reedbed at 3.50pm.
Great White Egret on Kenfig Saltmarsh/reedbed
Here’s the bird feeding with grey herons on 1 July. Photo taken from haul road.
gannets down aberavon beach
bout 8 gannets were seen close in at aberavon beach, seen from the prom about half 8 last night then drifted west towards mumbles very high tide last night but really calm, beautifull
Ogmore Est
7 Common Sandpipers around Portobello this afternoon.
Tutt Head Sea Watch 05:48-06:48
1257 Manx shearwater almost exclusively up/channel (east)
7 Gannet
1 Med gull
2 black-headed gull
Llanishen Reservoir
A few additional breeding records from Llanishen: 2 adult little grebes feeding at least one surviving chick. 1 adult and 2 large juv moorhens. 2 broods of coots; 1 with very young chicks, another with large juvs. 1F mallard with c3 young chicks. Also, 1 GC grebe, 2 tufties and 1 heron.
GBC Newsletter
Apologies for non-sightings post but I’m just about to put the summer edition of the GBC newsletter to bed. However I’d like a couple more photos. (ideally taken in Glamorgan) If there are any photographers out there who could contribute please get in touch.
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A470 abercynon roundabout
Green woodpecker low over the car. Nice new tick for the drive to work list.
The Leys, Aberthaw
Linnets galore, male and female Stonechats, lone Yellowhamer.
Lisvane Reservoir
Now that the nights are drawing in, plenty of wintering wildfowl are starting to arrive; 4 eclipse-plumage pochards, 43 tufties, 62 Canadas, 2 mute swans, 7 mallards and 35 coots. 5 live GC grebes and a dead one, floating near the east bank. Odd sight of the day was a green woodpecker flying the full length of the reservoir over the open water, south-to-north. 58 LBBG and 7 herring gulls in the roost but no BH gulls here yet. 2 BH gulls at Roath Park Lake this morning.
Bracelet Bay – Mumbles
Up to 6 summer plumage med. gulls on the waters edge…
Crymlyn Bog
this morning… sedge,reed,cetti,willow warblers… chiffchaff & blackcap…
Plenty of Emperor Dragons around too…
Crumlyn bog
A red kite with about 200 herring and lesser black backs over the tip also seen 2 ravens 3 buzzards a pair of bullfinch with a juv female a whitethroat carrying food a blackcap still singing at nearby tir john pond mallard with 4 young 2 pairs of tufted ducks but no sign of breeding coot with young a little grebe and a singing sedge warbler
Cosmeston
forgot to mention [although not v exciting!] a sum plum Black-headed Gull was on the posts on W lake, 1st one back since the spring departure.
Cosmeston
V quiet bird-wise but nice show of Ox-eye Daisies in the meadow, and lots of Ringlets on the wing.
Sorry Guys Not Bird Related
i dont know if you all allready know this but can you please help this person out even ehen you go to do your bird watches too keep an eye out for this dog, it was last seen on Briton ferry mountin on 31/5/14 in the morning and have been missing whilst being out on a walk if you have any news then please contact the number on the advert 🙂 sorry for non bird post!!
Blackpill, Swansea
A Peregrine flew over Blackpill Beach at 8 p.m., heading towards the city centre.
Worms Head
My annual (ish) jaunt to Worms Head for Puffins was a reasonable success with up to 4 birds present. One flyby not long after I arrived then 20 mins later 3 together with the auks below the breeding ledges. Other notables were 500+ Manxies feeding off the outer head and a few Swifts flew over – leaving already?. A Redshank and a Humming bird Hawkmoth were seen on the inner head on the way back.
Glamorgan Bird Club 
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