youtube.com/watch?v=4TmK... Goldcliff update.
30.06.2025 07:34 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0@adarcaerffili.bsky.social
I'm Graham, welcoming you to some bird watching noir, mostly from the Caerffili hills. Music & poetry hoarder. Fond of tinned, peeled plum tomatoes.
youtube.com/watch?v=4TmK... Goldcliff update.
30.06.2025 07:34 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0youtube.com/watch?v=GRxv... If at Faust you don't succeed... πΆπ΅
07.07.2025 06:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Who doesn't like red roses? πΉπ₯
07.07.2025 06:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Urban Rooks in Energlyn this morning. #birds #birdingWales π¦
07.07.2025 06:33 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Male Sparrowhawk, very quickly through a few gardens & over the wall into the local cemetery (Mynwent Penyrheol) this morning. Five seconds of excitement. Don't see the males that often. #birds #birdingWales π¦
07.07.2025 06:31 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lovely array of woodland birds down in Cwm yr Aber early yesterday. Green Woodpeckers,plenty of fluty Song Thrush song,excellent view of Blackbirds eating wild strawberriesπ,Chiffchaffs&Wrens in good voice,good Nuthatch&Long-tailed Tit numbers,a few Jays etc. #birds #birdingWales π¦
07.07.2025 06:28 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's that time of the year again when the Crocosmia Lucifer blooms at the local baptist church. #WelshGothic
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Teifi Ringing Group latest blog with news from the Teifi Marshes reed beds and movements of our birds including a Woodcock to Russia, Sedge Warblers from France and Jersey and a wandering Bullfinch from Llangorse Lake #birdringing #birdingwales teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/05/reco...
29.05.2025 08:50 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0New Teifi Ringing Group blog including Storm Petrels at Strumble Head, first signs of breeding success at our CES site and a Reed Warbler on the Teifi Marshes that had been ringed in Belfast #BirdRinging @btobirds.bsky.social teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2025/06/stor...
28.06.2025 07:15 β π 14 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1From early May 2022, the first of five Linnets emerging into the big world, from deep in the Mynydd Eglwysilan gorse. #birds #birdingWales
28.06.2025 06:54 β π 16 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Just three of the many beautiful quatrains in Lemn Sissay's Let The Light Pour In. π
28.06.2025 06:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saw lots of Astilbe (also known as False Goat's Beard) beside a very beautiful pond, in a garden I visited last weekend. This lot running riot on the side of a Penrhos lane yesterday. (Photo by Jan). πΈ
28.06.2025 06:29 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I could have made a small Eton Mess! π
28.06.2025 06:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Plenty of wild strawberries on the banks of the Mynydd Meio lanes this morning. ππππ
25.06.2025 08:28 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02/2... Blackcaps,good to see lots of juvenile birds(eg Stonechats,Willow Warblers,Long-tailed Tits,House Sparrows),Nuthatches,good Starling numbers feeding around cattle,Linnet song,Goldfinches on thistle heads,Bullfinches in the hedges etc. #birds #birdingWales π¦
25.06.2025 08:21 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01/2 A very good if drizzly start to a Wednesday in this Mynydd Meio lane. Drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker,numerous Meadow Pipits in song flight,Pied&Grey Wagtails,better Swallow numbers here than in recent years,2 rattling Mistle Thrushes,a couple of Redstarts... #birds #birdingWales π¦
25.06.2025 08:14 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes, I didn't exactly get a good view of the Newport bird. It was exciting though, getting glimpses & listening to it right outside the visitor centre. π
25.06.2025 08:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes they certainly are. All wool-lined due to the sheep in this habitatππ. π
25.06.2025 08:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saw one of these reeling away at @RSPB Newport Wetlands a number of years ago.
25.06.2025 08:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Seeing a Savi's Warbler despite the difficulty, in this blog. Appreciate everyone who takes the time to read, comment and repost. #ukbirding #birds
24.06.2025 15:40 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Along the lovely Mynydd Caerffili paths today. A few Buzzards overhead,all singing-Tree Pipit/Blackcaps/Garden Warbler/Chiffchaffs/Song Thrushes/Chaffinches/Greenfinches,good views of Nuthatches,Jays,Goldfinches,Bullfinches etc. A lot of Common Spotted Orchids&a few newts. #birds #birdingWales π¦
24.06.2025 12:42 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Discover some of the statistically significant population trends from Wales from the latest @bbs-birds.bsky.social report. β¬οΈ #BirdingWales
24.06.2025 08:17 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Your occasional reminder of the beauty of Linnet nests & eggs. All these (& many others) found in gorse & carefully monitored for the @btobirds.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme on Mynydd Eglwysilan a few years ago. #birds #birdingWales π¦
24.06.2025 08:09 β π 46 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0