Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Rosebush and Llys-y-fran reservoirs

With the influx of geese and other interesting wildfowl nationally I thought the reservoirs would be worth a look. Rosebush reservoir: 12 diving duck but only Tufted duck (8m), 7 coot, 6 teal, 3 little grebe and a single GC grebe that was calling. Llys-y-fran: After being devoid of geese on recent visits tonight there were 500+ Canada's and an encouraging 104 Greylag but nothing else with them. 6 GC grebe. A dead drake goldeneye was drifting down the reservoir. Only a handful of gulls at 3pm, the roost formed opposite the hide. Just a single adult YLgull and 2 GBB so I called it a day early. George and Fiona had a double figure count of goldeneye and 2 YL gulls.