Bob Griffiths - Short-eared Owl
Keith Noble - Peregrine
Keith Noble - Cormorant
Keith Noble - Iceland Gull
Mike Williams - Red Kite
Goshawk - Mike Warburton
Yellowhammer - Jeff Slocombe
Kingfisher - Mike Williams
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Entry added by: Andy Davis on Tue 15th February 11, 06:43pm
Sighting location: Western brecknockshire. Sighting date: 15/02/11
Further thoughts on the Carrion Crow preying on Starlings - see the gallery for my report yesterday. ..... Again today, I observed a CC diving into a flock of starlings and catching one. Has anyone else seen or heard of this behaviour? It is not due to the lack of carrion, there are plenty of sheep carcasses in the vicinity (above 1000' rule) . And having not seen a CC ever eat anything bigger than a snail or a chick that was live I feel this behaviour is possibly carried out by a rogue Crow. ( The starlings are caught unaware as they don't see crows nearby as predators from my obs.. and today there were 3 sat on fences next to the starlings before this one dived in)
Entry added by: John Harper on Tue 15th February 11, 09:28am
Sighting location: Brecon ?. Sighting date: 13/02/11
Ref. Andrew's suggestion on 13th about Peter's post of the same day : : : could it not be that one of the Nuthatch pair is more nervous feeding in close proximity to other birds and takes seed away to a favourite perch to devour ? . . . . I have observed this individual difference in feeding with Blue, Great and Coal Tits as well as Greenfinch, Nuthatch and Greater-spotted Woodpecker at a friends' place at Wickwar (Glos) for many years. Here the nut and seed feeders are 5m above ground level at 1st floor level (on a valley slope) and the flight line is direct to/from a large dense pear tree that acts as a refuge.
Entry added by: John Duffy on Mon 14th February 11, 10:19pm
Sighting location: Pwllpatti. Sighting date: 14/02/11
Plenty of Wigeon and Teal at Pwllpatti. A few Mallard and 2 Mute Swan - brief visit this pm
Entry added by: Andy Davis on Mon 14th February 11, 08:41am
Sighting location: Usk res.. Sighting date: 14/02/11
5x Greylag Geese at Usk Res around 09:30, then flew north over the Epynnt.
Entry added by: Andrew King/Griff on Sun 13th February 11, 10:04pm
Sighting location: WeBS sites. Sighting date: 13/02/11
WeBS duck-count highlights. Talybont Reservoir = 8 LGrebe, 16 Goldeneye and 5 Goosander. Pentwyn = 5 Pochard, 2 Goosander. Pontsticill = 1279 Herring Gull, 34 LBBGull & 1 GBBGull. Single GCGrebe back at both Talybont & Ponsticill. At Llangorse yesterday, as per usual in February, numbers of waterfowl reduced since mid-Jan apart from increases for Goosander (62) and Goldeneye (64). Re Nuthatch - this species regularly caches food away, so what Peter saw was a bird wisely taking food away to a favourite store should winter make a return. In the snow in December I watched a Nuthatch at Talybont Res'r dig down through snow/leaf litter to successfully find its autumn store.
Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sun 13th February 11, 09:10pm
Sighting location: Myn. Fforest / Brecfa Pool / Ffordd Fawr. Sighting date: 13/02/11
A Green Woodpecker was on Myn. Fforest, then down at Brecfa Pool 12 Coot, 16 Teal, 10 Mallard, 8 LBB Gull and 1 Lapwing, finally at Ffordd Fawr 145 Mute Swan (inc. 23 1st winter) and a Canada Goose.
Entry added by: Robert Taylor on Sun 13th February 11, 02:24pm
Sighting location: Epynt near Upper Chapel. Sighting date: 12/02/11
1 Crossbill - never seen before in this place. Unfortunately it flew into a window and died.
1 or 2 Barn owls visible almost every day.
Entry added by: peter jackson on Sun 13th February 11, 01:45pm
Sighting location: Canal Bank by the allotments.. Sighting date: 13/02/11
We ahve had a pair of nuthatches coming to our bird feeding table for the past 4/5 days, 1 eats at the table , the other always collects a beak full of seed and then flys off in exactly the same direction. I looked up breeding times and April is indicated, can any one elucidate please ?
Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sat 12th February 11, 09:34pm
Sighting location: Battle Hill. Sighting date: 12/02/11
Another quiet TTV produced 5 Crossbill, 34 Crow, 6 Rook, 4 Raven, 2 Magpie, 5 Blackbird, 3 Coal Tit, and singles of GS Woodpecker, House Sparrow, Buzzard, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk and Chaffinch.
Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Fri 11th February 11, 10:04pm
Sighting location: Talybont Res.. Sighting date: 11/02/11
Highlights of a TTV along part of the res were 2 Crossbill, 2 Goldcrest and 1 Redwing. On the water 2 Mute Swan, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Goosander, 3 Wigeon, 1 Teal, 1 Tufted, 7 Little Grebe, 5 Coot, 20 Mallard and a possible 'Sinensis' Cormorant.