Another Mega for Gwent!

The Yellowthroat showed really well this morning in stunning sunshine.Despite a few moans of bad behaviour off some in my opinion everyone was well behaved.

MEGA !!!

Still to stunned to say much except for my apprentice didn't do to bad after a quick crash course in photography :-) Well done Chris

Grippback

Not a bad weekends birding was had.Started off in Calshot for the Spanish Sparrow had a second look at the Junco.Made our way back to Newport and re found the Glossy ibis.Round 3 of the Goosander Survey took place Sunday with poor results but 3 Cracking Iceland Gulls made up for that.

Long Time

Haven't been active on the blog for a while but managed to see a few good birds in the mean time.Finished last year on 273 Species with some  massive highlights.Also managed to see a good few birds since my last post.Highlights being Western Sand,Common Crane,Rough-Legged Buzzard,Black Brant,Richards Pipit,Humes Yellow Browed and Dark-Eyed Junco. 

Crazy Fools

Waited for news before shooting over to Chew Valley Lake for a Sharp Tailed Sand.Had to take the Van so it was a bit like a scene from the A Team.Mad Murdoc and faceman took it in turns in the back.After viewing the Sand a pair of Dowitchers and a Spotted Sand we headead back home.Somehow we manged to find our way past Blagdon Lake and towards the M5 at Bridgewater.Talk soon turned to how far the Desert Wheatear was in Devon.After a few phone calls back home and a nice steady drive we were watching the wheatear.The light had gone by then so not many pics taken.So all in all a longer day than expected but some cracking birds were seen.

A Few More from Today

Tricky Ricky

Visited boat lane again this morning in search of the Small Canada Goose that i saw yesterday distantly.Still present and associating with the Canada's.Now where has this bird come from?I would imaging a few would say its come from someones collection.I'm not so sure.It is the right time of year.

Three birds have turned up in  Ireland.Two in western Scotland.One in Somerset.

They are know as being  long distant migrants.Gwents 2nd ever Greenland Whitefront has also arrived at the same time.(which it might have arrived with)A Black Brant and a few Pale Bellied Brents in the Gower.

Apparently there has been a curious pattern of dispersion across North America at the moment with, amongst others, three in Ottawa the other day apparently mega-alerted.It is associating with the Canada flock but what other geese are there in Gwent to associate with.I Guess we will never know but its still an interesting bird and well worth a visit if possible.