1ST - 5TH AUGUST 2007

AUGUST began with a single European Storm Petrel and a Great Skua off Porthcawl on 1st and a Eurasian Hobby flew over the M4 at Pencoed. At Kenfig Pool, a female/juvenile aythya duck strongly resembling a Redhead was present, along with two Dunlins. Heavy rain on the 2nd produced four Lesser Whitethroats at Kenfig Pool, as well as the Redhead type, which has been identified as a juvenile. Two Little Owls were at Sker Farm. A Eurasian Hobby was at Parc Slip near Bridgend, while Wernffrwd had 1000 Eurasian Curlews, nine Whimbrel, 76 Little Egrets, thirty Mediterranean Gulls and four Yellow-legged Gulls. A Pied Flycatcher was at Pant Norton. On the 3rd, two Whinchat and a Pied Flycatcher were at Trethomas near Caerphilly. The bushes at Kenfig Pool were busier than of late with two Garden Warblers, 23 Common Whitethroat, 24 Willow Warblers, , seven Bullfinches, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Stock Dove. A female Common Teal was on the pool and the Redhead type juvenile remained, while Sker had 25 Ringed Plovers, 150 Sanderling, twelve Dunlin and nine Whimbrel. A Tree Pipit was at Pant Norton. More rain on the 4th produced eight Green Sandpipers and a Little Stint briefly at Llanilid, where there were also thirty Mistle Thrush, five Spotted Flycatchers and a very early European Golden Plover. Kenfig Pool had two Common Teal, a Grasshopper Warbler and three Lesser Whitethroat of note, but there was no sign of the Redhead type aythya duck despite sevreal people searching. On the 5th, Kenfig Pool had a fly over Little Egret, five Lesser Whitethroats, two Garden Warblers, a Kingfisher, seventy Barn Swallows and four Northern Shoveler were new in on the pool. Forty Ringed Plover, 38 Ruddy Turnstone and an adult Mediterranean Gull were at Gileston.