Friday 9 September 2016

Sightings 9/9/16

Garganey and Black-necked Grebe at Blagdon Lake
Sanderling at Oldbury Power Station
Bar-Tailed Godwit at New Passage
Whinchat at Chipping Sodbury Common and Chew Valley

09-09-16 Waders (Ian Stapp)
Coming in after rain at Blagdon Lake
Bristol
Abbots Leigh, Church Rd: 1 HOBBY (Sadly found dead)
Chelwood Roundabout: 2 Buzzard

Oldbury Power Station:
15 Ringed Plover, 1 Lapwing, 1 Sanderling, 10 Dunlin, 26 Redshank, 55 Turnstone, 1 Wheatear

Aust Warth:   2 Wheatear

New Passage/Northwick:
5 Knot, 37 Turnstone, 4 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail
Northwick Warth flash:
10 Ringed Plover, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 50 Dunlin, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank,
Pilning wetland:
4 Little Egret, 1 Ruff + 3 Reeve, 2 Snipe, c.120 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Bar-Tailed Godwit, 30 Redshank

Sea Mills:
17 Redshank, 70+ BH Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 8 House Martin

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Kestrel, 1 Skylark, 4 Whinchat (quiet?)

Blagdon Lake:
35 Wigeon, 8 Pintail, 2 Garganey,  1 Little Egret, 5 Grey Heron, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 5 Ringed Plover, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Dunlin
Bickfield Farm:  50+ House Martin & Swallow

09-09-16 Great White Egret (Ian Stapp)
One at Chew Valley Lake
Chew Valley Lake:
7 Wigeon, 5 Pintail, 42 Little Grebes, 1 juv Great White Egret (Stratford Bay, then roosted on Herriott's Pool), 5 Little Egret, 1 Hobby, 11 Lapwing, 1 Snipe. 5 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull (ad, 2nd-yr and Swiss-ringed juv), 19 GBB Gull, 15 Sand Martin,
50+ House Martin & Swallow, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Wheatear, 2 Yellow Wagtail
Dam:
3 Egyptian Geese,
Heron's Green:
2 Buzzard, 2 Whinchat 
Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Green Sandpiper
Stratford:
25 Knot (flew off west through Heron's Green)

Reports: Chris Craig, Andy Davis, lee Gardiner, Ken Hall and Rich Mielcarek, Andrew Middleton, Nige Milbourne, Vic Polley, Lois Pryce, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Mrs Trellis, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds