GRC Blog


Welcome to the GRC Recorders pages. This blog provides details on all the relevant news of Glamorgan’s scarcer birds, plus all BBRC & WRP decisions that affect us locally. It will also be used to document the status and occurrence of these scarcer species and we welcome contributions from anyone with photographs, artwork or documentation of rarities past, present and future. The GRC also welcomes all seawatching news from around Glamorgan and news of passage migrants in spring & autumn, uncommon birds in our area and unusual behaviour.


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Sunday 5 May 2013

Seawatching and Cuckoos

Seawatching from Port Talbot Docks 07:00 to 10:15
Common Scoter (24), Great Northern Diver (1), Whimbrel (20), Dunlin (41), Sandwich Tern (4) and "Commic" Tern (2). Also a small trickle of Hirundines heading west (c250) mainly Swallows, but a few Sand Martins and a House Martin also.

Some encouraging Cuckoo sightings from the last few days with a male at Pant-y-sais (3/5/13), 2+ male at Crymlyn Bog and a female at Pant-y-sais (4/5/13) and a female (above) at Port Talbot, today.
(MHi, RJ)

2 comments:

steve howcroft said...

2 cuckoos yesterday at leckwith Cardiff , behind companies wood. SRH + JR

Barry Stewart said...

2 Cuckoos at Cwmdulais from 30th April.