12TH - 18TH MAY 2008

On the 12th, the Whiskered Tern was again present at Kenfig Pool, along with a very late pair of Gadwall and a pair of Common Pochard. The Ring-billed Gull was again at Lamby Way Lake and the first two Eurasian Nightjars were in at Llanwonno. A Eurasian Hobby was again in Maesteg. On the 13th, a Eurasian Wigeon and a European Golden Plover were at Kenfig Pool, a Great Skua was at Blaen-y-Cwm, a Common Cuckoo was in the Neath Valley and a Spotted Flycatcher and Garden Warbler were at Miskin. The 14th produced a drake Garganey at Cosmeston Lakes and three Arctic and four Sandwich Terns were offshore at Kenfig Sands, where there were also two Grey Plover, 28 Sanderling, nineteen Dunlin and 26 Ringed Plover. A Common Cuckoo was at Kenfig Pool. The first rain for a few weeks on the 15th saw a Wood Warbler present in Coed-y-Bedw, Cardiff, 500 Common Swift and 300 House Martin in Cardiff Bay and seven Common Terns at Kenfig Pool. Counts of singing migrants at Kenfig Pool on the 16th included 54 Willow Warbler, 45 Common Whitethroat, fourteen Reed Warbler, ten Sedge Warbler, a Lesser Whitethroat and nine Blackcaps. The only news on the 17th was of a Common Greenshank and six Common Sandpipers at Llanilid and a Sandwich Tern and two Northern Gannet at Port Talbot Harbour. The 18th produced a rather elusive Golden Oriole at Westmoor on North Gower and a Honey Buzzard was seen coming in off the sea at Cardiff Bay. Three Spotted Flycatchers were in Cwn Clydach.