Gwent birding (1 Viewer)

[luke]

i think the seed thing only happened once and it was only a small amount, but i can certainly see where your coming from. Also could you thank your boss for being so good with having birders wandering around the carpark! i few staff and security guards have come out and have all been very interested.

Anyway, its still there today but proved very elusive all morning and didnt show until 2:30 and was only about for an hour or so catching insects from its favourite sign.

 

[luke]

heres a few pics from today.

 

[The Valley Walker]

Typical, I get 3 hours sleep and wander up there - no sight of it...you go back after our visit and hey presto - bet when I get back up there it will have gone back to bed!

 

[luke]

oppppps! sorry alan. you'll get it, have confidence!

 

[mike from ebbw]

I had some great views this evening!Managed a couple of pics but the light was failing.

 

[luke]

nice mike! did you see alan up there before you went??

 

[oldgiteggy]

Luke and Mike, excellent quality shots...
looks like a 400+mm lens is needed!

 

[mike from ebbw]

nice mike! did you see alan up there before you went??

No.I saw Lee when I popped in on the way home from work and then Gary when I went back up for an hour at about 5pm.

 

[luke]

Luke and Mike, excellent quality shots...
looks like a 400+mm lens is needed!

i know, only a few more weeks of saving every penny i get!

 

[luke]

things are getting tense now, Alans back online!!

 

[The Valley Walker]

Sadly it was a no show for moi again....light was fading quickly and the only inter action was from the security guard who asked did I have permission to be there coz it was private property. There's always tomorrow but I suppose when you have had at least 3 or 4 lifers in the last few days I can't be that bad about it.

 

[GaryH]

Fabulous shots Luke and Mike, looks like it pays off parking near that post! Hopefully it will stay long enough for me to get as good!!

 

[mike from ebbw]

Fabulous shots Luke and Mike, looks like it pays off parking near that post! Hopefully it will stay long enough for me to get as good!!

I parked where you were parked first of all but he kept coming up but wouldnt land.Moved a bit further up and then he did.

 

[luke]

Yet another exciting day in gwent with me finding an Aquatic warbler at the wetlands!!!! Thankfully a managed to get a few people there to see it aswell. Obviously i was quite keen to have another person see it as i was the only observer at the time. And i am rather releived to see on RBA, that another birder (pos tim hall?? BF member) has seen it this evening.

I left Tim waiting at around 3:30 so hopefully he was lucky.
for anyone interested it was showing about 150yds east of the lighthouse at uskmouth just past the T juction.

What will be tommorow??? nothing as i am in work!

Oh and at goldcliff there was 1 little stint, 3 ruff, and 1 curlew sand out on the estuary.

 

[mike from ebbw]

Yet another exciting day in gwent with me finding an Aquatic warbler at the wetlands!!!! Thankfully a managed to get a few people there to see it aswell. Obviously i was quite keen to have another person see it as i was the only observer at the time. And i am rather releived to see on RBA, that another birder (pos tim hall?? BF member) has seen it this evening.

I left Tim waiting at around 3:30 so hopefully he was lucky.
for anyone interested it was showing about 150yds east of the lighthouse at uskmouth just past the T juction.

What will be tommorow??? nothing as i am in work!

Oh and at goldcliff there was 1 little stint, 3 ruff, and 1 curlew sand out on the estuary.

Blimey,you did well.Did you get any pics?

 

[luke]

thanks mike, no i didnt get any pics, my camera was in the car! anyway i was too excited to get any pics. I have just done my description but the county recorder was going down after i phoned him so hopefully he'll see it so my description wont be so vital.

Apparently, no sign of the black redstart today Mike?

 

[mike from ebbw]

No.I went up on the way home from work.Saw Steve,Rod and Lee but it didnt show.Also went up about 6 this evening and still nothing.There werent any insects around though so that didnt help.

PS,always and I mean always take your camera with you.

 

[mike from ebbw]

Sadly it was a no show for moi again....light was fading quickly and the only inter action was from the security guard who asked did I have permission to be there coz it was private property. There's always tomorrow but I suppose when you have had at least 3 or 4 lifers in the last few days I can't be that bad about it.

None of the rest of us have had any problems Alan.The boss of the unit opposite even came over to have a look!You must have that "dodgy" look about you (lol).

 

[Tim Hall]

The Aquatic Warbler showed well on and off from 1655 (I'd gone to Goldcliff by then!) until at least 1845, when hunger took over. Just before I left at 1645, Gareth Stamp and another Glamorgan birder arrived, and I passed Luke's information on. They refound it quickly.
Luckily it hung around until I got back from Goldcliff and I had far better views than I dared hope for.
Thanks to Luke for showing me where he'd seen the bird. Later on, it was about 150 yards further east of where it was first seen.

 

[mike from ebbw]

Nice one Tim!I wish I could get down there myself.