Return to Wales

Spent the weekend at Jenx house in Cardiff so used the opportunity to check out Goldcliff in the Gwent levels. They have 3 new hides one of which gives a new view over the lagoons nearest the sea wall. In a productive couple of hours, the highlights were 2 Greenshanks, 1 Spotted redshank, female Marsh harrier, 3 avocets on the foreshore, and an unusual looking bird that one onlooker stated looked like both a goose and a swan. Turns out that it was a feral swan goose, native to the Mongolia.

Next location was Forest Farm nature reserve where a bittern had been reported. Reached the hide and happy to see that the bittern was showing well, along with a water rail and a pair of bullfinches.