Forrest Of The Dean

Can i tempt you?Go on Click for the bigger Picture.

That Was That.

182 was the final total after 12 months of hard work.Some Good birds for the county of Gwent were seen and some easy ones missed.Never mind that's birding.Do i do it all again(yeah most probably).MANY THANKS TO ALL THE OTHER GWENT BIRDERS WHO TEXT PHONED AND E-MAILED ME WITH BIRD NEWS OVER THE YEAR.THANKS AGAIN.

The First

Cosmeston Lakes Glamorgan.More Aythya here than in the whole of Gwent(Probably).

CLICK BIG YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

Gwents Got Some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spent the morning at western ave looking for the 2 Waxwings that were reported.No joy first thing so we headed to Ynysyfro for a look.An ad winter Med Gull was picked up here and a female Goosander.Headed back to western ave for another look but still no joy.Did have a nice cup of tea and biscuits here tho.Whilst back home i was planning to go back up at about 2:30.Made myself a cup of coffee and stood out on the balcony when i heard a Waxwing flying over.It decided to make a brief stop in one of the tallest trees before flying off again.A search of Caerleon then followed but no more Waxwings were seen.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas to all readers of this blog in internetweb world.Hope you've enjoyed it.Many thanks.

Ynysyfro Res

Popping into Ynysyfro reservoir for the last 12 months with not much to show for my efforts finally paid off yesterday with this little beauty.

Black Necked Grebe on the Gwent Year List.

Just Inside

Managed to get the Snow Bunting just inside Gwents boundary this afternoon before it flew back into Glamorgan.Another tick for my Gwent Year List.

New Mag Out Now

Found this on the intrnetweb.Just paid for my subscription.

Scauparooney!!

Following up a tip off i headed to the Nedern Brook.Was a little bit concerned about the amount of dark around the nail but was told this was quite normal in first winters.Happy days and the Gwent Year list clocked up one more.

Species Number ???

Black Redstart showed pretty well at Peterstone Gout in a freezing cold northerly wind.

It was seen on both sides of the gout and went missing for long periods.

Where are the Waxwings?

YR And LR

Highlights at these two reservoirs were 1Goldeneye at YR(That was it here)At LR a Water Rail put on a good show in front of Greenpool Hide.A Heron having trouble trying to swallow a huge Pike(i Think).A few Goosanders and 50+ Lapwing was the best of the rest.