Notable Recent Sightings

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

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Nightingale at Cors Dyfi

As many of you will have seen from the Dyfi Osprey Project blog, there was a Nightingale yesterday at Cors Dyfi! Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRz0kai27dA&feature=youtu.be
In the 1940s Nightingales used to nest on Llanymynech Hill, but they are rarely recorded in Wales these days. The last Montgomeryshire record was of a singing male on Moel-y-Golfa, Middletown, which stayed for two weeks in May 1983. I used to go up into the village on warm nights to listen! Thanks to Jo Porteous of the Cambrian Ornithological Society, who was the first to notice the song on the DOP live streaming; and to Emyr Evans and his team for spreading the word and for the video.

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