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: Andrew King on Fri 2nd April 10, 09:09pm
Sighting location: Breconshire County Atlas. Sighting date: 01/04/10
BTO Summer Atlas restarted 1st April. Please contribute your sightings in April - July to the UK Atlas as a Roving Record. Details on the Home Page - very simple to do and of high value. Breeding records are particularly important - there are many areas of the county yet to confirm breeding of even common garden species. Even though the weather is far from summery, now is the best time to get records of resident species that breed early (eg Mistle Thrush), birds gathering nest material, and for making counts while the trees are bare (eg Rook nest counts). Thanks for whatever help you can give.
Entry added by: Steve Jones on Thu 1st April 10, 08:32pm
Sighting location: Llanwrthwl. (SN968622) Sighting date: 01/04/10
Great Grey Shrike - 1 seen briefly in hawthorn adjacent to small conifer clump past the cattlegrid at Penrhos. Settled in a Larch only to be mobbed by a Red Kite. looked for the bird again before dusk but no luck. In addition to this a Merlin perched in a mountain ash higher up the road near Ty Segur and a lovely male Wheatear on a nearby fence (my first back up here). Lots of Mipits on the move and 20+ Song Thrush. Not a bad 15 minute 'car birdwatch'!
Entry added by: Andy Davis on Thu 1st April 10, 06:44pm
Sighting location: A40. Sighting date: 01/04/10
Single Swallow over the A40 by the old vicarage, Llanspyddid. 4:45pm
Entry added by: Steve Jones on Wed 31st March 10, 09:06pm
Sighting location: Llanwrthwl. (SN975635) Sighting date: 30/03/10
Reed Bunting - a mini invasion up here lately. A single male on the lawn feeding with chaffinch yesterday was my first garden record in 9 years. In a nearby garden there were 10 more (8 male, 2 female) - the first records there for 4 years.
Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Wed 31st March 10, 07:44pm
Sighting location: river Senni, Sennybridge. Sighting date: 31/03/10
At least 138 Meadow Pipit feeding in 3 fields near Trephilip bridge Sennybridge at 16:50 today. Likely to be local breeders displaced from Forest Fach (if they ever got up there) by sleet and wind.
Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Wed 31st March 10, 07:38pm
Sighting location: Crickhowell. Sighting date: 31/03/10
Thanks to Dominica for confirming my first Brecs Swallows of 2010, a small group seen 100 m downstream of the old bridge across r. Usk at 14:30 today, but too distant to confirm i.d.. Also OOC, 5+ Swallows at Monmouth at 14:00.
Entry added by: Dominica williams on Wed 31st March 10, 06:09pm
Sighting location: Crickhowell, Powys. (SO212185) Sighting date: 31/03/10
Swallows. Pink buff underparts, long forked tail, steel blue upperparts.
Entry added by: Sue Bidmead on Wed 31st March 10, 09:14am
Sighting location: Bronnlys (will add grid ref later). Sighting date: 30/03/10
3 swallows
Entry added by: Keith Noble on Tue 30th March 10, 06:46pm
Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 30/03/10
Two House Martins, 50 Swallows, 80 Sand Martins. At Waterside/Common, 2 White and 60 Pied Wagtails, 55 Meadow Pipits, 20 Goldfinches
Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Mon 29th March 10, 10:40pm
Sighting location: Talybint Res. / Ty Mawr Pool, Llanfrynach. Sighting date: 29/03/10
At Talybont 9 Goldeneye, 5 Tufted, 3 Mallard, 2 GC Grebe, 3 Coot and a Cormorant. 5 Tufted and a Moorhen at Ty Mawr Pool.