Thursday 8 September 2016

Sightings 8/9/2016

A bright and windy day.   Late post.

Bristol Science Park Lake, Lyde Green 
Little Egret

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 8 Whinchat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher.

Oldbury Power Station:
Common Tern (downriver), Whinchat.

Littleton Brick Pits:
Peregrine

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
38 Wigeon, 22+ Shoveler, 3 Pintail, 3 Knot, 6 Curlew Sandpiper, 93 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 12 Yellow Wagtail.


Turnstone at  Severn Beach (Vic Savery)
Severn Beach:
adult Sabine's Gull.  (Paul Bowerman) (Wow! - ed.)

Portbury coast:
6 Wheatear.

Clevedon-Yeo:
15 Wigeon, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 10 Oystercatcher, 4 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, 18 Black-tailed Godwit, 60 Curlew, 10 Swallow, 7 Wheatear, 5 Meadow Pipit.

Sand Point:
3 Wigeon in Sand Bay, 2 more going south.  22 Bar-tailed Godwit (going south), Swallows, House Martins, 1 Wheatear, 3 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff,

Kenn Moor:
1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 6 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Redstart, 4 Wheatear, 7 Whinchat, 2 Linnet.

Barrow Gurney tanks:
148 Canada Goose, 12 Teal, Wigeon, 2 Moorhen, 8 Common Sandpiper.

Blagdon Lake:
Black-necked Grebe, 3 Little Egret, Garganey, 4 Pintail, Hobby, Peregrine.

8.9.16 - 3 Arctic Terns at Chew (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake:
(warning: fishing competition this weekend)
Dam:
2 G BB Gull
Woodford:
2 Little Egret, 150+ House Martins and Swallows.
Herons Green:
1 Little Egret, 3 Little Grebe, 2 Buzzard (including the white one), 2 Whinchat (pond), 10 House Sparrows.
Moreton:
1 Hobby, 1 Buzzard, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker. 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff,  6 Goldcrest,  4 Long-tailed Tit.
Herriotts Bridge:
2 Little Egret, 1 Tufted x Pochard hybrid, 2 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 1 Ruff, 9 Lapwing, 1 Yellow-legged Gull (pond), 3 Arctic Tern (on mud spit towards Stratford), 3 Black Tern (flying in Stratford bay) , 1 Cetti's Warbler.
Also reported at Chew:
1 Black-necked Grebe, 3 Wigeon, 1 Garganey.

Reports:  Paul Bowerman, John Croxton, Mark Dadds, Andy Davis, Michael Davis, David Gibbs, Robet Hargreaves, Rob Laughton, John Martin. Trevor Riddle, Vic Savery, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Mrs Trellis, blagdonbirds, opsbirding