Flock of c. 120 Fieldfares flew over heading north this morning.

Also of note – single swallow heading south

20 Redwing over the garden early this am and 40+ this evening, All heading East.

31 Goldfinches on and around my garden feeders his morning. The local Chaffinches couldn’t get a llok in.

20-30 Redwings in Singleton Park just now – first I’ve seen here this year.

Sorry for late posting, only just got set up to post today. On a short visit to Penclacwydd yesterday, we enjoyed flight views of 2 Glossy Ibis a hundred yeards or so out from the Marsh hide. I think they were then visible moving in amongst the juncus viewable from British steel Hide.

In blustery wet conditions this morning, of note, Watermill: 1 Grey Heron, 8 Teal, numerous Mallard; Portobello Island 1 Wigeon, 2 Teal, 3 Buzzard briefly over, 2 Redshank, at least 10 Common Gull in with the hundreds of Black-headed and Herring ulls, several Great black-backed Gull, several Pied Wagtail and a Meadow Pipit.

First Fieldfare’s of the year approx 180-200 flying around the fields at waun y gilfach llangynwyd and a small group feeding on hawthorn in field just before the church, up on top of llangynwyd 1 jack snipe on roadside at my ty talwyn, 1 red kite and a wheatear on the motorbike track

Six scoter flying west… 1 gannet.. Several manxies

19th Saturday 10-12am. 12+ Meadow Pipits, 1 Rock Pipit, at least 450 Golden Plover, 2 Knot,  oystercatchers, 12 fly by Wigeon.

Rest Bay car park, Rooks x 4, Common Gulls x 2 , Linnet

Pink Bay 1 Wheatear very confiding

BTO thrushes survey on and around the Common this morning.170 Redwing , most in woodland feeding on Yew/rowan and hawthorn berries,just one Fieldfare ,3 song thrush and 10 blackbird.

Other birds of note-3 bullfinch,2 grey wagtail and a flock of 50+ chaffinch feeding on beech mast .Small copper on the wing.

Photographed 29 years ago by Ian Tew – click HERE for the answer. 

Redshank 4, little grebe 2. Autumn at last on the Ogmore!

Kingfisher (1 West Lake), quite a few Goldcrests around and a flock of c 30 Redwing.

In Hamadryad Park a vocal and mobile Cetti’s and a Water Rail calling on the north side of the ‘pond’; the pontoons on the Taff have disappeared.
CBWR: Lesser Scaup present with 72 Tufted Duck, Kingfisher, 2 Herons and 9 Little Grebes; 4 Water Rails calling including 2 close to both sides of the boardwalk.
Barrage: Kestrel and Wheatear f/o and Curlew in sea.

A quick mid-morning (09:45-10:30) sea watch before the rain came in. Viewed from Baglan Dunes – Common Scoter (20), Velvet Scoter (2), Great Crested Grebe (42), Turnstone (18), Guillemot (4), Auk sp (30-40), Sky Lark (2 ->e) and Swallow (4 ->e).

Also a decent flock of Starlings (300+) around Scarlet Avenue, mainly flying around but landing out of view in back gardens, etc. It’s perhaps worth keeping an eye on them though, this area has form!

A Firecrest was in scrub near the walled garden this morning.

Great northern diver c. 300m off Mumbles Pier. Adult with some traces of summer plumage still visible.
3 red-breasted merganser across Swansea Bay past lighthouse.
Mumbles Hill. Some large mixed flocks of tits (including a lot of long-tailed) with 2-3 chiffchaff and a few goldcrests amongst them.
Almost all the Med gulls were at Limeslade this evening.

late p.m. by Prospect place, 1 drake Goldeneye and 19 Tufties, 1 Little Grebe and 2 GCG. Also 16 more Tufties up towards the Yacht Club. The rough ground opp the Ice Rink is fast disappearing under concrete for the construction of “Cardiff Pointe” [as if Cardiff Bay needs more ‘apartments’]. No more breeding Ringed Plover, or migrant Wheatears here then. Oh, on what’s left of the grass & pools there were 6 Pied Wags and a Linnet.

A Firecrest was calling but only seen briefly before dissapearing, a single Swallow flew south, 3 Red kite, Peregrine and Goshawk but no Ouzels on the berries yet.