Photo from Mike Hogan of a Sanderling at Rhaslas Pool, the first for the site and the most northerly record for this species in Eastern Glamorgan. Rhaslas has been well watched this spring and has turned up some excellent records of wader passage migration. Rhaslas is under threat from being completely destroyed by open-cast mining, so the more records we have, the better our case for keeping this excellent upland pool from being covered by the waste materials from the mining operations. Well done to Mike, Geri & Alan for their sightings.
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Visited this fine site for the first time last week to see the black- necked grebes. To lose this pond to development would be an outrage! valleynaturalist.blogspot.com
I had no idea that this site was under threat. It used to be counted for WeBS but has not been counted for many years. If anybody's interested in taking on Rhaslas so that we can get as much data about the site as possible please get in touch with me: Daniel Jenkins-Jones at eastglamwebs@gmail.com
Thanks
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