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Entry added by: Steve Jones on Sat 15th May 10, 08:44pm Sighting location: Llanwrthwl. Sighting date: 15/05/10
A walk from Dinas to Ty Segur this evening - 3 Whinchat, all singing males. 5 Redstart including a nest in a stone wall, Yellowhammer, Tree Pipit, Snipe (2), 3 Cuckoo singing in different locations, Grasshopper Warbler, Pied Flycatcher. A Tawny Owl was seen carrying a mouse / vole into a nearby barn.

Entry added by: Breconshire Atlas on Fri 14th May 10, 08:02pm Sighting location: All over Breconshire. Sighting date: 14/05/10
Progress report - the third summer of this 4yr project is going well. Our aim is to record birds in as many squares of the County as possible, in summer with breeding signs if possible. 220 tetrads (=880 sq kms) have been monitored on at least one summer visit since April 2008. There are many more to do though! - please visit www.birdatlas.net and book a square near you. First summer visit should be walked by the end of May with a second visit by end July. Records are required for all species - do you have Blue Tit nesting in the garden birdbox, or House Sparrow under the eaves? You do not have to be an avid birdwatcher, but sparing a few moments to log your records is really appreciated. Thanks

Entry added by: Keith Noble on Mon 10th May 10, 03:57pm Sighting location: Brechfa Pool. Sighting date: 10/05/10
The Cape/hybrid Shelducks now have nine ducklings, Mallards have one. One immature Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Blackbacks, and 2 Lapwings in bare field

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Sun 9th May 10, 10:35am Sighting location: Sennybridge, 1979. Sighting date: 20/06/79
The problem with childhood birdwatching was the distinct lack of note taking (I hated writing in those school-days). One summer my father, a good nest finder, found and showed me a Common Sandpiper nest with 4 eggs located on the MOD side of the river Usk at Sennybridge and my friend and I kept an eye on it for a few weeks. A second nest was then found 440 metres downstream. I distinctly remember that this nest produced chicks as I recall the distressed parents that were unable to attend the young due to a human family had decided to have a picnic right next to the nest (would not move despite our showing them the chicks and our explanations and protests). Both nests progressed past hatching and these are the only times I have seen nests of this species. Over the last few weeks while house-clearing for some building work, I found an old Brecon High School essay of mine which dates this summer to 1979. Using a few more clues I can put the dates as in and around the 3rd weekend in June. Together with the nest sites positions and inter-nest distances assessed with GPS last week I am now ready to add this belated breeding record to this site, BirdTrack and the BTO Nest Record Scheme. Common Sandpipers have not, to my knowledge, held territory or bred anywhere along this river since I have resumed active birdwatching in 1999 but it is nice to add some data that illustrates the high densities present in the late 1970s.

Entry added by: Bev Lewis on Sat 8th May 10, 07:50pm Sighting location: Llanfrynach. (SO074258) Sighting date: 08/05/10
A new first for my garden (Llanfrynach), a pair of siskin have been feeding on my nyger feeder for the last four days.

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Fri 7th May 10, 05:46pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 07/05/10
A weather front brought in 100's of Swift and an Arctic Tern. 3 Dunlin and 3 White Wagtail were at Llangasty. A Hobby was feeding over the lake and a Barnacle Goose was at the Crannog.

Entry added by: Andy Davis on Thu 6th May 10, 12:49pm Sighting location: Usk Res. Sighting date: 06/05/10
Single Greenshank along with a few Sandpipers on the Dam Wall, Usk Res. South End, & within Brecknockshire. (also walked into Carmarthenshire)

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Thu 6th May 10, 11:16am Sighting location: Sennybridge. Sighting date: 01/05/10
Regarding the Lesser Whitethroat, I had already entered it on to one tetrad (SN92E), so it is recorded and I will probably stick to that single tetrad now. The last (first) time I recorded LW in this area, in 2007, it was also on this tetrad in a hedge below Forest Fach. A week later it moved 10 km square into the Crai valley (SN82)! Regarding the local Heronary, I counted the shells (1/2-3/4 complete) from 30 hatched eggs there Sat morning suggesting a good hatching rate.

Entry added by: John Lloyd on Thu 6th May 10, 09:18am Sighting location: Usk Valley. Sighting date: 05/05/10
I counted the two Usk Valley heronries today. There was very little activity at Penwern with just 1 nest showing any evidence of occupation. At the Sennybridge heronry however, there were 35 occupied nests- the dry weather allowing an accurate count. This heronry continues to go from strength to strength and is now the only known heronry for 20kms in any direction (apart from the 1 nest at Penwern!). I am puzzled by what is going on- is it a predator response (to Gos and Kites?)? In compensation, at Penwern, as I walked around checking that the herons had not moved within the wood, I found a Chiffchaff nest with 5 eggs, a Coal Tit nest with 7 eggs and an occupied Goldcrest nest. In answer to gareth's Lesser Whitethroat dilemna, if the territory extends into 2 tetrads, there is a Lesser Whitethroat breeding record in each tetrad. Interestingly there is a Lesser Whitethroat holding territory on Llangadog Common in Carmarthenshire- another record that is considered to be outside (further up the valley) than the normal range.

Entry added by: Gareth Rees on Wed 5th May 10, 10:28pm Sighting location: Sennybridge. Sighting date: 05/05/10
Lesser Whitethroat still calling in Sennybridge early afternoon. A complication for Atlas recording purposes is that the territory spans two separate tetrads (confirmed by GPS).