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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...

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had a fantastic holiday – we certainly did with lots of wildlife to see around the reserve. Plenty of our regular birds have been seen including long tailed tits , little owl , redwing , fieldfare , reed bunting , gadwall , teal and wigeon and Perry Lane...

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...

If you’ve been lucky enough to get out and about recently no doubt you’ll have heard birdsong almost everywhere you turn. The mating season is now well and truly underway and as we say ‘goodbye’ to our winter migrants, Britain’s summer visitors are reaching our shores...

The howling wind and threatening rain clouds might be enough to keep even the keenest of nature-lovers indoors. But the latest species counts on the reserve prove that anyone who does brave the weather will be rewarded. The foreshore is buzzing with life with more than 200 teal , 200 shelduck ...