Glamorgan Rarities Committee: Brambling, Caerau

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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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The Glamorgan Rarities Committee, in conjunction with the Glamorgan Bird Club & Gower Wildlife , have agreed to co-operate with the Welsh Ornithological Society in the sharing of bird records & photographs in the interest of keeping accurate records and to promote birdwatching in North, Mid & South Wales.

Sunday 22 February 2015

Brambling, Caerau

With all this crap weather I'm going stir crazy today, so decided to spend sometime watching the garden feeders, when a female Brambling dropped in - my first since 2006 in the garden. Photos taken in monsoon rain conditions so only record shots. There haven't been too many records of Brambling this winter, so this brightened up the day. In the 3rd picture you can just make out the white rump.