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| 5-9-16 Wood Sandpiper (Paul Bowerman) New Passage - Pilning Wetland |
Eastville Park:
100+ House Martin, large flocks of Long-tailed Tit
Crews Hole: 1 Coal Tit (back on the feeders today after a long absence)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
Whinchat.
Pilning Wetlands/Northwick Warth:
A stonking total of 19 species of wader seen today!
Osprey (circling for 15 mins, then flew south). 1 Egyptian Goose, 1 juv Garganey, 14 Knot, 8 Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Sanderling, 5 Ruff, 3 Snipe, 100 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Whimbrel, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 juv Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 66 Common (mostly) and Arctic Tern, 2 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail. (Full list at Severnsidebirds)
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| 5-9-16 juv Spotted Redshank (Brian Lancastle) New Passage - Pilning Wetland |
1 Little Egret, 105 Ringed Plover, 2 Knot, 33 Dunlin, 1 Wheatear
Portishead:
Hobby (due south over the High Street), Common Sandpiper (Battery Point).
Late news from Yatton:
2 Wryneck reported in a private garden on Sat 3rd September.
Blagdon Lake:
2 Garganey, 1 Pintail, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 14 Little Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 2 Common Sandpiper, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 4 GBB Gull,1 ad Common Tern, 1 juv Black Tern (early, then vanished).
Bickfield Farm: last 2 House Martin young fledged today, out flying 3.55pm
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| 05-09-16 Little Egret + 3 Green Sandpiper (Ian Stapp) Chew Valley Lake |
170+ Canada Geese, 13 Barnacle Geese, 3 Egyptian Geese, 1 Wigeon, 3 juv Pintail, 1 female Goldeneye, 1 Tufted x Pochard hybrid, 5 Little Egret, 32 Little Grebe, 1 Hobby, 3 Ringed Plover, just 4 Lapwing, 7 Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, 2 x 2nd-yr Yellow-legged Gull, 23 GBB Gull, 2 Jay, 5 Sand Martin, 80+ Swallow and House Martin, 4 Goldcrest. The Osprey look-alike white Buzzard still around.
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| 5-9-16 Knot (Lisa Presland) New Passage |
