Friday 29 January 2016

Sightings 29/1/16

29/1/16 Purple Sandpiper (Peter Heather)
Portishead, Battery Pt, 9 birds in all, best count we've had here in ages
Stockwood (Bristol):
Open Space: 2 Goldcrest, 14 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, 30 Goldfinch, 4 Bullfinch.

Castle Park (Bristol):
Finzel's Reach: 3 Peregrine (pair +1 so presumably a family group).

Marshfield:
West Littleton: The Little Owl house is up for sale, bummer.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52745896.html

Shepperdine:
1 Merlin.

Oldbury Power Station:
6,000 Starling, lagoon 2.

New Passage-Northwick:
8 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose still, 80+ Canada Goose, 450 Wigeon, 24 Gadwall, 120 Teal, 20 Shoveler, 9 Tufted Duck, 1 Sparrowhawk, 90 Dunlin, 250 Curlew, 2 Raven.

Severn Beach:
6 Shelduck, 90 Turnstone, 120 Kittiwake.

Portbury Wharf:
5 Mute Swan, 2 Shelduck, 76 Wigeon, 21 Gadwall, 8 Teal, 37 Shoveler, 1 Pochard, 7 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Grebe, 25 Lapwing, 43 Snipe (bankside, flushed by something), 3 Common Gull, 2 GBB Gull.

Portishead:
Battery Pt: 9 Purple Sandpiper (Peter Heather).
Boating Lake: 4 Mute Swan, 6 Tufted Duck, 135 BH Gull.
29/1/16 Purple Sandpiper (Peter Heather)

29/1/16 Crow (Mrs Trellis)
around the lake grounds
Kenn Moor:
Yatton RFC: 1 Barn Owl out 7.45am.

Backwell Lake:
18 Little Egret into roost this evening (Mike Thomas).

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Teresa Chard, Daphne Havercroft, Peter Heather, Higgy, Trevor Riddle, Mike Thomas, Mrs Trellis, opsbirding, severnsidebirds.