Time to start again:t: Good luck to all here on BF. As usual I'll add any mammals, decent places to eat/ stay etc.
2014 Total: 188
Checking out the New Years Day weather forecast it was clear that West was most certainly not going to be the best. Having misjudged what time it was going to get light I ended up sitting in the car waiting for enough light to get going. This was outside Newport Wetlands centre. Don't think I looked dodgey at all unshaven with my beanie on
Continued my 100% success rate with dipping on Beardies here but to be fair it was very windy and most stuff appeared to be hunkered down in the reeds. First bird of 2015 was a Song Thrush and first mammal was a bunny. Being early a mini murmuration of Starlings was a very welcome sight.
1. Song Thrush
2. Grey Heron
3. Magpie
4. Carrion Crow
5. Tufted Duck
6. Pochard
7. Coot
8. Moorhen
9. Blackbird
10. Redwing
11. Blue Tit
12. Great Tit
13. Stonechat (by lighthouse)
14. Bullfinch
15. Gadwall
16. Reed Bunting
17. Herring Gull
18. Curlew
19. Pied Wagtail
20. Kestrel
Next it was on to Goldcliff. Caught up with Bryan whom I've met a few times at the reserve. A great birder with excellent local knowledge. Good luck with your mission to find a Hawfinch in Gwent this year Bryan:t: Water levels were very high and as the tide was out the number of species was low.
21. Teal
22. Black Tailed Godwit
23.Wood Pigeon
24. Collared Dove
25. Jackdaw
26. Little Egret
27. Shelduck
28. Starling
Some birds are slightly out of order as I'm writing this from my iPad which is more awkward to change.
2014 Total: 188
Checking out the New Years Day weather forecast it was clear that West was most certainly not going to be the best. Having misjudged what time it was going to get light I ended up sitting in the car waiting for enough light to get going. This was outside Newport Wetlands centre. Don't think I looked dodgey at all unshaven with my beanie on
Continued my 100% success rate with dipping on Beardies here but to be fair it was very windy and most stuff appeared to be hunkered down in the reeds. First bird of 2015 was a Song Thrush and first mammal was a bunny. Being early a mini murmuration of Starlings was a very welcome sight.
1. Song Thrush
2. Grey Heron
3. Magpie
4. Carrion Crow
5. Tufted Duck
6. Pochard
7. Coot
8. Moorhen
9. Blackbird
10. Redwing
11. Blue Tit
12. Great Tit
13. Stonechat (by lighthouse)
14. Bullfinch
15. Gadwall
16. Reed Bunting
17. Herring Gull
18. Curlew
19. Pied Wagtail
20. Kestrel
Next it was on to Goldcliff. Caught up with Bryan whom I've met a few times at the reserve. A great birder with excellent local knowledge. Good luck with your mission to find a Hawfinch in Gwent this year Bryan:t: Water levels were very high and as the tide was out the number of species was low.
21. Teal
22. Black Tailed Godwit
23.Wood Pigeon
24. Collared Dove
25. Jackdaw
26. Little Egret
27. Shelduck
28. Starling
Some birds are slightly out of order as I'm writing this from my iPad which is more awkward to change.
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