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Entry added by: Iain Crawford on Mon 9th May 22, 05:00pm Sighting location: Talybont . (SO123234) Sighting date: 09/05/22
Female goosander and 12 ducklings

Entry added by: Iain Crawford on Mon 9th May 22, 04:58pm Sighting location: Boughrood bridge . (SO130385) Sighting date: 09/05/22
Grey wagtail, kingfisher, 4 Mandarin ducks

Entry added by: Iain Crawford on Mon 9th May 22, 04:46pm Sighting location: Brecon . (SO046286) Sighting date: 09/05/22
Red kite, 3 swifts

Entry added by: scott larman on Mon 9th May 22, 02:44pm Sighting location: B4250 (brecon to builth road). (SO021434) Sighting date: 09/05/22
Curlew x 2 - together stood right on the roadside as i drove passed the entrance to the sennybridge army range, up on the B4250 this morning at 7am.

Entry added by: Andrew King on Sat 7th May 22, 07:56pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 07/05/22
Single passage Bar-tailed Godwit and Dunlin on diminishing flood, and 4 Lapwing. One Greylag Goose on SCMeadow.

Entry added by: Neil Farr on Fri 6th May 22, 06:31pm Sighting location: Mynydd Fforest hill (400m) - north of Bronllys.. Sighting date: 04/05/22
At Brechfa Pool there were 3 wheatears, 2 pied wagtails, heron and a male mallard on the low/shallow pool. Along Brechfa Common and up Mynydd Fforest there were meadow pipits, stonechats on the gorse, 2 skylarks, a fox and a g . s woodpecker. Below Nant-yr-arian on Waun Diroedd first seen on a young alder tree and then on a hawthorn by the stream ( Ford ) was a common whitethroat ( a first for me ) - gave good views. Heard cuckoo and a green woodpecker. Back at Brechfa Pool a curlew landed searched for food and then flew around the area .

Entry added by: Scott Larman on Thu 5th May 22, 08:09pm Sighting location: Honndu foot bridge - the struet. Sighting date: 05/05/22
3x Fledgling Dipper, plus an adult diving and hunting for invertebrates and feeding like mad. Very easy to see from the footbridge over the Honddu on the Struet

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Wed 4th May 22, 02:09pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 04/05/22
Sanderling still at Llangasty joined by 9 Whimbrel, and the Black-tailed Godwit on the rushy field has been joined by a Bar-tailed Godwit.

Entry added by: Keith Noble on Tue 3rd May 22, 12:35pm Sighting location: Llangorse Lake. Sighting date: 03/05/22
At Llangorse, a female Black-tailed Godwit, Yellow Wagtail and four Lapwings in Rushy Field, two Oystercatchers, one Great Egret and Kingfisher at Acorn. At Llangasty on Point, single Sanderling, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, three Common Sandpipers. Pair of Stonechats in Point Field, two Swifts .

Entry added by: Mark Waldron on Mon 2nd May 22, 07:50pm Sighting location: Forest Lodge / Cnwch Wood. Sighting date: 02/05/22
BTO BBS near Forest Lodge gave 25 species with territories of 2 Whinchat and 5 Stonechat. Also 59 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark and a Tree Pipit. 2 Cuckoo calling but just 1 Redstart. Also a Curlew calling. Later at Cnwch Wood in the Elan Valley 20 species around the wood with territories of 4 Wood Warbler, 10 Pied Flycatcher and 5 Redstart. Two large rookeries noted along the A470 of possibly 25+ nests noted at Erwood bridge and at the very east edge of Builth Wells.