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Entry added by: John Lloyd on Fri 31st December 10, 08:46am Sighting location: Bird of the day- Atlas website. Sighting date: 31/12/10
Low and behold.... in honour of Steve finding Hawfinches in SN96V, the bird of the day is Hawfinch. And the map has a dot in SN96... (the last dot at the top left of the diagonal line of records) Well done Steve! Happy birding in the new year everyone....

Entry added by: Andrew Dally on Fri 31st December 10, 08:08am Sighting location: Near Beulah. Sighting date: 30/12/10
4 Brambling & 4 Siskin with flock of c30 Chaffinch ground feeding in garden. 2 Brambling also used peanut feeder. Also on 26th December 8 Wrens in close company at dusk (presumably looking for roosting site).

Entry added by: Andy Davis on Thu 30th December 10, 07:28pm Sighting location: as post. Sighting date: 30/12/10
Over 200 Fieldfare around Glasfynydd forest, in the fields adjacent on its northern edge. Grey wagtails on dam wall of usk res and the most strangest site, 2 merlin flying together at about 20m above the ground, not hunting... one seemd to be trying to catch the other so probable after a share of a kill.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Thu 30th December 10, 06:13pm Sighting location: Sarnau and Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 30/12/10
Single Teal, Woodcock and Coal Tit added to Roving Records within SO03B Battle Hill (south) this morning. This afternoon at Llangorse the Bittern flushed, and a Cettis sang 'cettia-cettia', and probably a second one making contact calls. It is still a struggle for birds there though as the ice is 6cms thick still despite day 4 of the 'thaw'.

Entry added by: Steve Jones on Thu 30th December 10, 05:48pm Sighting location: Trembyd southern flank. (SN990610) Sighting date: 30/12/10
Whilst doing the SN96V tetrad in fog this morning the highlight was a Hawfinch near Rhos y beddau - associating with a group of thrushes most of which were fieldfare. 21 species seen (only 4 on the fog bound upland bit). These included Goldcrest, Long tailed Tit, Wren, Bullfinch, Redwing, Song Thrush, Raven (3) and a singing Dunnock. Flying around near the summit of Trembyd in zero visibility were a flock of fieldfare - numbers of which seem to have increased over the last couple of days here. A Snipe made up the numbers - flushed from a dry area on the flank of the hill.

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Thu 30th December 10, 12:25pm Sighting location: Brecon. Sighting date: 30/12/10
Peregrine over Brecon at 9:25 a.m. and Water Rail showing well just downstream of Llanfaes bridge with 2 Goosander and a Moorhen.

Entry added by: Gwyn Roberts on Wed 29th December 10, 06:10pm Sighting location: Ystradgynlais. Sighting date: 29/12/10
At least 100 Pied Wagtails coming in to roost at Ystradgynlais Hospital.

Entry added by: Mike Warburton on Wed 29th December 10, 03:09pm Sighting location: Cwm Claisfer. Sighting date: 28/12/10
A brief mid morning visit turned up very few species.Highlights were a single Woodcock,about 20 Crossbill and two GS Woodpeckers having a territorial ding ding one of which was drumming!

Entry added by: Rob Thomas on Tue 28th December 10, 10:24pm Sighting location: Pwllgloyw. Sighting date: 27/12/10
Enlisted my brother to have a look for woodcock at dusk. We quickly flushed 1 in a 80m walk along the small stream running through the "wern" of Coed-y-Wern. As it flew off along the stream, we stopped there so as not to flush it again, but there is lots more suitable habitat in that patch! Also, 1+ willow tit as usual on the feeders at the farm, but no tree sparrows so far this winter (had been regular for the last few years), and very few greenfinches too. Various hungry-looking kites, and a sparrowhawk trying hard for a blackbird.

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Tue 28th December 10, 08:35pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 28/12/10
3 Shelduck were snoozing in the ice free hole on the lake. Amoung the 100's of Coots were at least 9 Pochard, 14 Goldeneye, 10 Gadwall, 4 GC Grebe, 1f Shoveler, 9 Teal and 29 Mute Swan. 70 Siskin were feeding around the Crannog.