Newport

Sighting via e mail from Emma Ford - I was in Newport on Wednesday 12th November and watched an otter for over an hour (losing him for about 20 minutes) from about 8am until 9am. He was looking for food, working his way along the half submerged wall upstream of the road bridge and over to the patch of water by the small island on the right. Whilst we were there we also saw a water rail (PM of Tuesday 11th) and four snipe (PM Wednesday 12th), all were feeding in the small patch behind the wall along the edge of the reeds. There was also a kingfisher around.