Redstarts & Lesser Whitethroats

Recent sightings to report:-

Friday 19^th – On the back road from Glan Yr Afon Ind Est to Cwm Reidol I saw 1 male Redstart and 2 individual Lesser Whitethroats plus 20 or so Sand Martins flying around the bridge over the river in Capel Bangor. In Cwm Reidol where the farmers were grass cutting, there were 18 Red Kites sat on the cut grass along with 5 Lesser Black Backed Gulls and 6 Herring Gulls.

I was told of reports of approx 100 Gulls in a field in Ystumtuen. Possibly Lesser Black Backed Gulls.

The Buzzards nest in Ystumtuen has an adult patrolling the nest and keeping guard.

Also regular Redstarts seen, along with Wheaters and more recently, around 30 fledged Blue and Great Tits on our feeders.

Matt and Charly Potter