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Hi all, here’s the recent sightings list for Newport Wetlands over the last week. Avocet (at Uskmouth), Bar tailed godwit, Bearded tit, Black headed gull, Black tailed godwit, Blackbird, Blue tit, Bullfinch, Buzzard, Canada goose, Carrion crow, Cetti's warbler, Chaffinch, Common redshank...

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely festive break. We’ve had quite a busy time here at the Wetlands with lots of visitors walking off the Christmas pudding overload! Regular service has now resumed, the opening hours are back to normal, and we’re back to blogging, hooray...

We had a strange little microclimate here at the Wetlands this Wednesday! The entire Scrape was iced over and frost was clinging to the reeds. The resident mallards looked very confused standing on the ice! It was very strange because there was no sign of snow or ice in Newport at all. Despite the cold...

So, I’m not quite sure if it’s spring that’s arrived or if we’ve gone straight to summer! With such beautiful weather at this time of year it’s no surprise Perry Lane and the woodland up on the reserve are both filled with the sounds of chiffchaff . This member of the...

Bittern , marsh harrier , and bearded tit have been the star species of the last few weeks. And with the daffodils out in time for St David’s Day, the mallards getting even feistier than usual and great crested grebes performing their mating dance on the lagoons, it seems spring really has sprung...

The daffodils might be poking their heads up and March is just around the corner but the past couple of weeks finally saw the arrival of winter, with snow falling at Newport Wetlands on Saturday and the scrape, lagoons and reens frozen solid. The lagoons have been eerily quiet, but that doesn’t...

The reedbeds and estuary at Uskmouth are teaming with wildlife at the moment, with waders in particular putting on a real show down on the mudflats. Huge numbers of curlew , golden plover , grey plover , snipe , black tailed godwit , dunlin and knot can be seen feeding out on the foreshore, especially...

The trees and hedgerows of Perry Lane are crammed with redwings and fieldfare feeding, a water pipit appears to have taken up residence in the reedbeds and the starlings are still treating us to spectacular displays – winter is well and truly here. It’s impossible to visit Newport Wetlands...