This is only the 2nd time i've been to the Wetlands in Gwent and on the 30th there was heavy rain showers and it was very windy. Sightings included
Male tufted duck
A pair of mute swans with their juv
The curlew
View from wood hide
1 female mallard with males and a female pochard (infront)
2 female pochards infront of 2 male mallards
- 20+ mallards (both males and females)
- 3 adult male shovelers (hidden in the reeds)
- 3 female pochards (seen with the mallards from the wooded hide)
- Male and female teal (sighted from woodland hide)
- 2 female reed buntings got blown in by the wind from the Bristol Channel
- 20+ tufted ducks on the stretch of water
- 30+ herring, lesser black and greater black backed gulls
- 1 little egret sighted from the visitors centre
- The flock of 100- 200 starlings started performing their roost flock
- 1 greater spotted woodpecker on the feeder from the visitors centre
- 1 male pheasant feeding under the feeders
- 4 greenfinches as well as 9 gold finches on the feeder on the window and visitors centre feeders.
- A few coots
- 30+ redwings in the car park breifly
- 1 Cetti's warbler was calling in the vegetation by the reeds near the play ground. Heard its loud call but didn't see it.
- 1 male kestrel hunting on the coast
- 1 curlew
- A family of 2 adult mute swans with a juv
- 2 gadwalls from the hide in the middle on the walk
Birds i could have seen
- Bearded tits are always sighted there and on the 30th a female was sighted.
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