Wednesday 4 October 2017

4th Oct '17 Wednesday - Turtle Dove

Dry, cool, breezy (sou' westerly), odd sunny spell

Turtle Dove (some concerns about its health but seen feeding OK today, wind direction and strength not helpful to migration)


BRISTOL

Finzels Reach:
2 Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
46 Dunlin (on seawall), 1 Ringed Plover, 32Redshank, c35Turnstone, 24 Lapwing, 10 Wigeon
2 Teal, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Stonechat (around yacht club) 1 Swallow

Aust Warth:
1 Stonechat
Stonechat 4th Oct 2017 Aust TBOSG


New Passage/Northwick Warth:
Turtle Dove, 2 Wheatear, Meadow Pipit (many), Pied Wagtail (many), Starling (several flocks)
1 Skylark,
Turtle Dove (Alan Chard)
Very tolerant of people
Yate:
Red Kite (over Kingsgate park), 2 Chiffchaff, 7 Gadwall


NORTH SOMERSET:

Portishead:
Kilkenny Place: 7 long tailed tits (on feeders)
Skua (off Battery Point, long way off)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Kingfisher

Bath:
Corston Fields : Kestrel

Newton St Loe:
35 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer, 1 Kestrel, 3 Buzzard, 10 Skylark, 100+ Linnet, 1 Mistle Thrush
1 Stonechat
Kestrel (NSL-Birding)
Chelwood:
3 Mistle Thrush

RESERVOIRS:

Chew Valley Lake:


Dam:
100-200 Cormorants (mid-lake opposite café. Others arriving and leaving continuously)
2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Little Egret, 1 G-W Egret

Woodford:
3 G -W Egret (Stratford bay), 2 Little Egret, 4 G BB Gull

Heron's Green:
15 G-W Egret, 6 L Egret, 1 Cattle Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Buzzard,
2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Stonechat, 11 Little Grebe, 68 Wigeon, 3 G BB Gull, 1 Common Gull

Egrets and Grey Herons (Ian Stapp)
At Heron's Green, where else?
Moreton:
1 Peregrine, 2 Tawny Owl, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 88 Wigeon, 15 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Treecreeper
3 Chiffchaff, 7 Chaffinch, 1 G S Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Cetti's
Peregrine at Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Herriotts:
3 G-W Egret, 2 L Egret, 1 Cetti's, 3 G BB Gull, Grey Wagtail

Grey Wagtail (Bill Hewitt)
Hollow Brook:
13 Ruff, 12 Black-tailed Godwit

Villice:
2 Ruff, 12 BT Godwits (probably moved over from Hollow Brook), 2 Meadow Pipit,
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Grey Wagtail

Black-tailed Godwit and Ruff (George Stacey)

Back of Denny:
13 Ruff, 2 G -W Egret, 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Pochard


Reports: John Griffiths, Andrew Middleton, Mark Coller, Ian Stapp, Alan Chard, Alastair Fraser, Richard Mielcarek, Robert Hargreaves, Teresa Chard, David Howes, Bill Hewitt, George Stacey, Dee Pope, Angus Hamill blagdonlakebirds,  CVRSnslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds