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Entry added by: peter jackson on Mon 22nd March 10, 04:55pm Sighting location: Outskirts Brecon and Mynydd Fforest. Sighting date: 22/03/10
Golden Plover flock still at Mynydd Forest 3-4pm today. Also 2 pairs lapwing displaying at SO072304

Entry added by: Keith Noble on Mon 22nd March 10, 04:12pm Sighting location: Brechfa Pool, Mynydd Fforest. Sighting date: 22/03/10
70 Black-headed Gulls (all adult except one), 1 LBB/Y-l'd pair, 28 Teal, 3 Coots, and 2 Curlew in adjoining field. On Mynydd Fforest a male Wheatear and 332 Golden Plovers

Entry added by: Keith Noble on Mon 22nd March 10, 04:10pm Sighting location: Brecon. Sighting date: 22/03/10
One Chiffchaff in Scout Lane

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sun 21st March 10, 09:23pm Sighting location: Mynydd Fforest. Sighting date: 21/03/10
Updated sighting. Reviewed some flight photo's of the Golden Plover flock and it reveals 467 in total. I put another photo in the gallery in case anyone wants to double check or play dot to dot!

Entry added by: John Harper on Sun 21st March 10, 07:47pm Sighting location: Periphery of Cwrt y Gollen. Sighting date: 21/03/10
Cycled the periphery of the MOD training camp: : : a good few Robins singing; many Great Tits singing; Blue Tits still rather quiet, but 3 prs of L-t Tits twittered to themselves; 2 prs of Goldcrest squeaked the gates; small flock of Linnets flew over; grating from a Pheasant; 2 pr Buzzard; the 2 Stock Doves still battling it out with their overpowering song just west of Millbrook Bridge. . . . Several hoverflies on Celandines - all of 3 species - the commonest.

Entry added by: John Harper on Sun 21st March 10, 07:37pm Sighting location: Llangenny. (SO240180) Sighting date: 21/03/10
In and around village: : : 2 Dipper; 2 Pied Wagtail; pair Grey Wagtail; 2 Goldcrest singing; 1 Yaffle yaffling; 2 Greenfinch wheezing; much activity at rookery to SE - c.20 nests seen from afar. . . . 1 Red Admirable flying and a few Dronefly (Eristalis tenax) hoverflies. . . . Is Spring winning over Winter at last, I ask.

Entry added by: Margaret & Wayne Evans on Sun 21st March 10, 07:23pm Sighting location: Cwm Claisfer. Sighting date: 21/03/10
Tree Pipit in repeated display flight at entrance to Cwm Claisfer today at 1055 for twenty minutes. Would be pleased if someone would enlighten us.Is this early for such a sighting? [Not impossible, but surprising in a cool, late spring such as this. 2nd-8th April have been typical first dates in the last decade. Beware Meadow Pipits parachuting in early spring sunshine. Brecs Orn Comm]

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Sun 21st March 10, 03:46pm Sighting location: Mynydd Fforest. Sighting date: 21/03/10
The Golden Plover flock had moved across to Myn. Fforest today and were well spaced feeding near the road, a total of 388 included many in spectacular breeding plumage.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Sun 21st March 10, 11:35am Sighting location: River Usk below Brecon. Sighting date: 21/03/10
Highlights this am first light; 1 Woodcock flushed under riverside willows, 2 LRPlover back in a regular breeding location, pr Canada Goose with a nervy unringed Greylag Goose, male reed Bunting, two well separated Dipper, pr Grey Wagtail, 4 Goosander, 8 Teal. One Chiffchaff in partial song.

Entry added by: John Harper on Sun 21st March 10, 09:14am Sighting location: M&B Canal SO21D Llangattick. Sighting date: 20/03/10
Bike ride along 1km of canal late afternoon/evening - - - 2pr Moorhen; 3pr Mallard; 1pr Buzzard; 1pr Jay; 1pr L-t Tit; 2 separate Treecreepers; Nuthatch calling; Tawny Owl calling; many (10?) Great Tits singing; still small groups of feeding Blue Tit but also some singing halfheartedly.