This bearded tit was photographed at CBWR this morning by Cardiff Uni student Ed Suitters.
Tag: Cardiff Bay
Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve
Drake lesser scaup present at midday, among 112 tufted ducks. Also 22 teal, 6 little grebes, 4 GC grebes, 38 coots, 7 mute swans, 24 mallards, 3 snipe, 2 water rails, 5 cormorants etc.
Around Glamorgan
Lisvane (today): 1F teal and an influx of 17 little grebes, 2 pochard, 88 tufties, 32 coots, 24 mallards, 8 gc grebes, 1 heron, 6 sand martins in a mixed flock of c80 hirundines, raven and siskin over.
Llanishen (today): 2 mute swans, 2 herons, 2 mute swans, 8 mallards, jay and chiffchaff.
Roath Park Lake (today): 1F wigeon, 2F teal, 2 little grebes, 1 kingfisher, and the Chairman of the RSPB jogging past. No sign of Friday’s shoveller.
CBWR (4th Sept.): ad winter mediterranean gull on the boardwalk railings.
Rhaslas (5th Sept.): 11 tufties, 16 pied wags and 5 wheatears feeding along the shoreline, but no waders. A small turtle basking on a piece of wood in the small pond at the car park has been identified (by Dave Boyle) as a Map Turtle, Graptemys geographica. 
