Wednesday 21 September 2016

21st Sept '16 Wednesday - Avocet

Dry, mostly cloudy, mild day

Avocet at Portbury Wharf
Great White Egret at Blagdon Lake
1 Red Kite at Walton Down, Portishead
Water Rail, 2 adult Black-necked Grebe off the East Shore, 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull at Chew Valley Lake

21-9-16 Avocet (Mrs Trellis)
Portbury Wharf
BRISTOL
Stockwood Open Spaces:
1 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 5 Jay, 2 Goldfinch. Quiet today

Willsbridge Mill:
1 Grey Wagtail
21-9-16 Grey Wagtail (Brian Thompson)
Willsbridge Mill

Shepperdine shore:
1 Little Egret, 2 Curlew., 60 Turnstone

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Kingfisher, 500+ House Martin, 6 Wheatear

Aust (Cake Pill):
44 Wigeon, 1 Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, 10 Redshank

New Passage/Northwick:
18 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Grey Plover, 165 Knot, 4 Little Stint, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 250 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Wheatear, 2 Chiffchaff in the bushes.
Best sighting; a Water Vole in Chestle Pill
Severn Beach:
3 Ringed Plover, 1 Curlew Sandpiper

21-9-16 Bar-tailed Godwit (Mrs Trellis)
Portbury Coast
Portbury Wharf:
Avocet (Chris Stone)

Portbury Coast:
71 Ringed Plover, 9 Avocet, 96 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit (Mrs Trellis), 62 Curlew, 125 Redshank, 3 Wheatear, 53 Linnet

Portishead:
Walton Down 13.45: Red Kite

Clevedon-Yeo:
120 Shelduck, 25 Wigeon, 50+ Teal, 70 Mallard, 10 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk,
1 Kestrel, 18 Oystercatcher, 3 Grey Plover, 12+ Ringed Plover, 60+ Curlew, 11 Bar-tailed Godwit,
2 Turnstone, 15+ Dunlin, 120 Redshank, 1 Snipe, 200 BH Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 9 Wheatear,
2 Rock Pipit, 60 Linnet

Bristol Airport:
More Swallows & House Martin streaming South, also a few Meadow Pipit

Sand Point:
Grey Plover, Lots Hirundines (inc 1 Sand Martin) + Meadow Pipits, 2 Wheatear, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Blagdon Lake:
Great White Egret, 1 juv Ruff


21-9-16 Buzzard (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley
Chew Valley Lake:
200 + Swallow & Martin


Early evening: 8 Pintail, 2 male Tufted x Pochard hybrids, 2 Goldeneye (female and a newly arrived ad male moulting out of eclipse), 2 adult Black-necked Grebe off the East Shore, 6 Lapwing, 4 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Tern (appeared to be a second-winter - see photo below).(Keith Vinicombe)
21-9-16 Common Tern (Keith Vinicombe)
Chew Valley Lake this evening
Dam:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 GBB Gull
Woodford:
2 Little Egret, 4 GBB Gull
Villice Bay:
2 Hobby, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper
Heron's Green:1 Little Egret, 18 Little Grebe, 2 Buzzard, 1 Cetti's Warbler, large flock of Goldfinch (around 200).
Moreton:
1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 3 Green Sandpiper, 3 GBB Gull, 3 Jay, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Stratford:
2 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Water Rail, 5 Lapwing, 4 GBB Gull
Herriotts End:
3 GBB Gull, 1 Common Tern, 1 Cetti's Warbler

21-9-16 Common Sandpiper (David Hughes)
Chew Valley Lake
Reports: Paul Bowerman,, James Butcher,  Teresa Chard, David Gibbs, Peter Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, David Hughes, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Harvey Rose, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Brian Thompson, Mrs Trellis, Keith Vinicombe, Andrew Waygood, Jon Mortin.
 
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