Marsh harrier again – briefly – this evening. Flew over marsh road towards Penrice Castle. Seen from car, then briefly after I pulled over.
9 whimbrel at Nicholaston Pill until flushed by walkers
Nothing in the inshore waters and 2 gadwall on the South Pond.

1330-1500 5 fulmar, 2 gannet, 8 common scoter, 4 kittiwake, 7 whimbrel and 2 shelduck. All down channel.

3 Whimbrel on grass next to Sker Point, 5 near Pink Bay. 4 Wheatear Pink Bay, 2 Pool fields (all 6 female). Red Crested Pochard on Kenfig Pool. A dozen Swifts over pool/east fields. Cettis Warbler seen n/e corner of pool, Reed Warblers heard. Cuckoo seen north side of pool, with lots of Meadow Pipits around it. Lapwing further over. Plenty of Whitethroats and Stonechats.

European Storm Petrel 1, Manx Shearwater 40+, Gannet 5, Fulmar 3, Kittiwake 3 and Dunlin 5.

late news for y’day 6th May. An Arctic Skua was seen off Porthcawl at 6:30 p.m.by Chris Weedon.

went to oxwhich on saturday bout 4ish where we saw and head a good few chettis warblers, reed Warblers, whitethroats and the ususal wrens, robins. blackbirds etc and also the noise that keeps bugging me that i still cant seem to spot is that there was a Green Woodpecker heard numerous times around by the marsh and the pond by the road, tried for ages to try to spot it but could not see it i have checked the voice/call compared to other woodpeckers and im sure its the green woodpecker heard.

Ditto John’s post-I was only bemoaning the loss of whinchat on the common a couple of days ago-I think it is 2 years since i have seen one here . This evening a pair of cuckoo and two wheatear on the rocky outcrop on top of the mountain nearly made up for missing the chat!

Pair feeding young at Coed Bychan.

Sadly couldn’t find Tim’s Whinchat of y’day. A Wheatear was on top of the mountain, and other than that, Skylark, Tree Pipit a family of Stonechats, Willow Warbler, a few Whitethroat, and 2 Garden Warblers, open heard in brief song, and another singing and seen briefly as I walked back along the lower, middle path. Also a few Swallow and a single Swift over.

4 Wheatear(1m,3f)on the barrage rocks (with Peter H).
c.40 Swift over the bay at 10am.

The highlight from a walk along John Bachelor Way this lunchtime was a beautiful summer plumage Dunlin.  Not a bird I see often in this location.  Also present were the usual Turnstones (in varying degrees of plumage, including one in full breeding colours), and lots of very active House Martins.

An hour of seawatching from the Tutt at dawn resulted in 14 whimbrel (west), 7 gannet and 2 fulmar.

Whinchat this morning at Rudry Common. Also a cuckoo and plenty of whitethroats.

Cetti’s, reed, sedge warbler and whitethroat all heard and seen. Few sand martins over the reed beds and 100+ swifts over the bay

Lesser whitethroat in the valley at Longhole, along with a family party of stonechat.
Whimbrel (3) on the foreshore in front of Overton Cliff, and my first swift of the year over.
More fledged stonechats on the west side of Overton Mere, and a second pair alarming on the east side.
Singing wheatear at Porteynon Point.

Two singing garden warbler on the Common this am ,deep in scrub, but did get good but brief view of another at woodland edge just East of Rudry school. 6 skylark at the mountain top and plenty of the usual migrants ,including cuckoo.

Hobby hawking insects over the pool during the afternoon. Garden warbler (seen by Strinda), Lots of sedge warblers on the move. Siskin and redpoll over. A yellow wagtail was next to the haul road during the evening. Otter out on Kenfig Pool during the afternoon.