Saturday, January 06, 2018

Cattle Egret : RGW, Cardiff

I had arranged a day out around the Cardiff area with fellow 'togger' Peter Morgan yesterday our main targets being Hawfinch at a couple of locations and the Cattle Egret at Rumney Great Wharf found by Paul Bowden on Thursday afternoon.
We arrived at first light at Fforest Ganol and easily found 20+ Hawfinches but getting even a record shot in such dismal light and with the birds so high in the canopy was impossible.
We moved on to St James's Church in Rudry where there had  been a few Hawfinches lingering in the church grounds where there are several Yew trees for a week or so, we had several sightings over the course of an hour and a half or so but only managed a few 'record' shots of one bird high in the trees against a bright sky......














Moving on to Rumney Great Wharf by early afternoon we had more luck with the Cattle Egret finding it feeding in the roadside fields as soon as we arrived with a group of 6-7 Little Egrets and although we couldn't get as close as we would have liked we both managed some reasonable images.........










































We next moved on to Penarth Marina where we failed to find a Black Redstart and finished the day with a return visit to Fforest Ganol and whilst we found 15-20 Hawfinches high in the canopy the gathering gloom didn't allow us to get any photographs, time to head for home.

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