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Entry added by: Keith Noble on Sat 9th July 11, 05:13pm Sighting location: Llangorse lake. Sighting date: 09/07/11
An Osprey briefly at 10.35. Ski boat put up a Greenshank which flew round the lake calling and was joined by 4 Redshanks.

Entry added by: Steve Jones on Sat 9th July 11, 10:00am Sighting location: Llanwrthwl. Sighting date: 09/07/11
Between Dinas and the Ty Segur this morning.Green Woodpecker pair with one juvenile. Numbers of juvenile Willow warblers building up - at least 30 on the fences and amongst the bracken. Also 40 Linnets including several youngsters, 10 Redpoll, 8 Redstart including 1 adult male, Reed Bunting, 30 Swallow and similar numbers of House Martin.

Entry added by: MHogan on Fri 8th July 11, 04:54pm Sighting location: Llangasty. Sighting date: 08/07/11
Llangasty 13:00 - 15:00 hrs highlights: singles of Little Tern, resting on point and occasionally feeding over lake and an Osprey flying through west to east being mobbed by Black Headed Gull. Also at least 15 Common Sandpiper feeding/resting on mud.

Entry added by: Steve Jones on Thu 7th July 11, 09:27pm Sighting location: Llanwrthwl. Sighting date: 07/07/11
8 Whinchat, 4 Redstart, 2 Linnet all on the wire fences near the head of the road below Gamrhiw. All bar 1 Whinchat were juvs. A family party of Stonechat, a couple of singing Reed Bunting and a Snipe chipping away nearby.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Thu 7th July 11, 06:57pm Sighting location: Ty Mawr Pool, Llanfrynach. Sighting date: 07/07/11
Good breeding season for Coot - 6 adults and nine juvs equal-aged & recently left 3 nests - easily beats other county sites thus far. One Little Grebe trilling, and a fem Tufted too.

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Mon 4th July 11, 08:57pm Sighting location: Felinfach. Sighting date: 04/07/11
The Felinfach pair of Swift fledged 3 young his weekend - about a week later than last year.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Mon 4th July 11, 09:20am Sighting location: Cwm Dyfnant, MOD Epynt. Sighting date: 03/07/11
Walked that area of MOD N Epynt 20:00 hrs to midnight in the hope of crepuscular/nocturnal species - nothing, not even a TO.! The brilliant still evening was the highlight, but 7 glowworm shining bright from 23:10 hrs were nice. 26 Sand Martin made a pre-roost or -migratory flight high up onto the Range. On the way there, a Curlew with two half-grown chicks at Drovers - no threat from silage machinery there! Equally on the way home, a drumming Snipe at Cefn Iolo and a roadside Snipe at Cilieni are also useful Atlas records.

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sun 3rd July 11, 07:18am Sighting location: Battle Hill Forestry. Sighting date: 02/07/11
Highlights around the forestry were 9 Crossbill including 2 adult males and a 1st year male, a pair of Pied Flycatcher were feeding newly fledged young in the small area of oaks, a Tree Pipit was displaying on the clearfell, a group of 6 Raven, a family party of 9 Coal Tit, 18+ Chiffchaff included 12 singing males, 4 singing Willow Warbler, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Blackcap, 1 Nuthatch, 1+1 GS Woodpecker, a male stonechat carrying food, 4 Redpoll, 5 Linnet, 2 Siskin and a Redstart. Also of note 7 species of butterfly with 40+ Ringlet but the biggest surprise was a Golden-ringed Dragonfly.

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Sat 2nd July 11, 11:29pm Sighting location: West. Sighting date: 02/07/11
9 Swift over Pentrebach at dusk tonight. Yesterday evening a flock of 27 over Sennybridge at 9 pm with counts of 18 and 17 over Sennybridge and Defynnog respectively some 30 min later suggests 35 or so in the area. These counts are the highest I have seen in these areas for this species. Swallows continue to do well with many recently fledged families on the wing and one family of 7 fledglings lined up on a fence at Cnewr today.

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Sat 2nd July 11, 06:33pm Sighting location: Crai area. Sighting date: 02/07/11
Last night I received information of a Woodcock flushed in the Crai area sometime in May this year. The observer knows Woodcock very well. This is potentially the first breeding season record for SN82 and only the 4th for the whole county in this Atlas. The habitat in that area looks ideal for this species and I have done dusk surveys there several times with no evidence of rhoding. How many more non-displaying Woodcock are out there?