Notable Recent Sightings

01/10 Glossy Ibis 1, photo'd by Osprey camera at Cors Dyfi
17/09 Grey Phalarope 1 juv, Red Ridge Centre, Cefn Coch, photo'd
29/05 Pink-footed Goose 1, over Welshpool, photo'd on 09/06
01/05 Red-throated Diver 1, Llyn Clywedog
07/02 Whooper Swan 44, Lake Vyrnwy
31/01 Whooper Swan 51, Haimwood, Llandrinio
17/11 Firecrest 2, Castle Caereinion
07/11 Barnacle Goose 1 among Canada Geese, Llyn Coed-y-Dinas
07/11 Hawfinch a few, Lake Vyrnwy, also Bramblings
01/11 Short-eared Owl 1, Cefn Coch Wind-farm
01/11 Great Grey Shrike Gregynog
28/10 Great Grey Shrike Lake Vyrnwy, also 1 on 30th at Eunant
25/09 Gannet 1 juv grounded near Caersws
07/09 Nightjar 1, photographed near Pontrobert
17/07 Quail RSPB Lake Vyrnwy, also heard 20/06 and 08/07
24/04 Long-eared Owl 2, RSPB Lake Vyrnwy
16/04 Purple Heron 1, Cors Dyfi
05/03 Firecrest 1, Lake Vyrnwy
05/03 Short-eared Owl 1, Lake Vyrnwy
14/01 Pink-footed Goose 1, Dolydd Hafren
03/01 Waxwing 20, Meifod; also 5 Welshpool by canal on 01/01. Last: 6 Bwlch-y-Garreg 17/03
   
See Sightings Archive for older records

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Moel-y-Golfa

Moel-y-Golfa is one of the three Breidden Hills, the wooded one you pass on the A458 between Welshpool and Middletown. It's also my local patch. Brilliant on a cloudless spring morning like today. Between 0700 and 0900 I saw or heard six species of warblers, (2 new Lesser Whitethroat territories were good news), 5 Redstarts, 3 Tree Pipits, 3 Pied Flycatchers and 1 Spotted Fly too. Plus Mistle Thrush, Treecreeper, Great Spot and Green Woodpeckers, and a Fallow Deer. It's usually good for raptors too - but not that early in the morning! However, birders are never totally happy - a few years back we lost our Cuckoos and Wood Warblers.

Clare heard a Cuckoo on Middletown Hill on 4 May while I was in Lesvos.  
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