Wednesday 23 August 2017

23rd August '17 - Ringed Plover

Sunny with cloud and a bit windy at times.

Osprey (hitching a ride upstream)


BRISTOL

No reports


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Middle Point:
Osprey (floating up-river) (Slimbridge tweeted a photo of it sat on driftwood)

Oldbury Power Station:
Lagoon 2: 2 Redstart (juv/fem), Lesser Whitethroat

New Passage/Northwick Warth:

Pilning Wetland:
Garganay (juv) 4 Whimbrel, 45 Curlew, 185 Black-tailed Godwit, 60+ Turnstone, 3 Knot, 100s Dunlin & Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper,  4 Greenshank, 16 Snipe, 3 Swift, 1 Kingfisher,  2 Wheatear, 20+ Yellow Wagtail (mix of juv and ad),

Severn Beach:
5 Little Egret.

NORTH SOMERSET:

Portbury Wharf:
South Pools - 1 Heron, 2 Mute Swan
North Pools - Flock of 30+ Dunlin on the island, driven in by very high tide
Salt marsh - 4 Canada goose, 2 Curlew
Dunlin on North Pools (John Rickard)
Digiscoped
Portishead:

Marina: I Cormorant (different plumage from yesterday's sighting)
Kilkenny Place (at balcony feeders): 3 Long Tailed Tits, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Goldfinch.
Battery Point: Black-headed Gull with a metal ring and 1 fly-by Wheatear,


Clevedon-Yeo:
30 Mute Swan, 50 Shelduck, 9 Teal, 6 Shoveler, 1 Common Scoter,
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 2 Kestrel,
2 Heron, 8 Little Egret, 51 Oystercatcher, 5 Turnstone, 600 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover,
4 Lapwing, 1 Sanderling, 600 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 125 Black-tailed Godwit, 255 Curlew, 2 Whimbrel,
4 Greenshank, 19 Common Sandpiper, 150 Redshank, 6 Turnstone, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Skylark, 100 Swallow (steady movement to W),
4 Chiffchaff, 37 Wheatear, 16 Yellow Wagtail, 10 Meadow Pipit, 325 Goldfinch, 20 Linnet,
7 Raven, 1 Reed bunting.

(Yes that really is 600 Ringed Plover)


BELOW M4 & BANES

Marksbury:
60+Starlings (on the wires)

 
RESERVOIRS:

Barrow Tanks:
10 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green  Sandpiper, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Wheatear
Chew Valley Lake:

Lake Centre
17 Common Tern, 1 Black Tern

Dam
3 Egyptian Goose, 1 Green Sandpiper, 30 Canada Goose
Egyptian Geese (Ian Stapp)
Woodford
2 Buzzard, 8 G BB Gull (Denny), 1 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 20+ Swallows

Villice
4 Great White Egret, Grey Heron, 5+ Common Sandpipers, Lapwing
Great White Egret and Lapwing (Bob Brewer)
Herons's Green
1 Green Sandpiper, 18 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Reed Buntings
30+ Swallows, 12+ House Martins, 1 G BB Gull

Moreton
2 Swallows, 1 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 G BB Gull

Stratford
2 Ringed-Plover, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Ringed Plover (Ian Stapp)
Herriotts
Pond side
2 G-W Egret, 2 Green Sandpiper

Lake side
1 Snipe, 1 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 5 Black-tailed Godwit
1 G-W Egret, 4 Little Egret, 30+ Martins




Reports: Ian Stapp, John Rickard, Bob Brewer, Trevor Riddle, Janey Clark, Peter Hazlewood, Martin McGill, Paul Bowerman, Steve Sanins, Chris Stone, Dee Pope, Derek Angell, Martin Tayler, Brian Piercey, David Howes, blagdonlakebirds,  CVRSnslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds