Sightings 9/5/16

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9/5/1945: In memory of the soldiers of the Red Army & people of the Soviet Union.
71st anniversary of their Great Patriotic War today. для Родины!
Their hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGhpSsljh_Q.

9/5/16 Ring-necked Dove (Barbary Dove) (Mark Dadds)
Fishpool Hill, Brentry

A southern Africa species which is also kept in captivity. Hot on the heels of yesterday's Diamond Dove at Planet Chew....

New Passage-Northwick:

Shore & wetland: 12 Gadwall, 6 Tufted Duck, 1 Little Egret, 4 Little Grebe, 10 Oystercatcher, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 20 Ringed Plover, 160 mixed Ringed Plover/Dunlin, 10 Grey Plover, 33 Dunlin, 2 Whimbrel, 1 Turnstone, 5 BH Gull, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Sedge Warbler, 5 Reed Warbler, 3 Yellow Wagtail.

9/5/16 the Temminck's Stint (Paul Bowerman)
on the Pilning wetland, sometimes mobile

9/5/16 Yellow Wagtail (Vic Savery)
on the Pilning wetland

Severn Beach:
Morning stuff, 1 Hobby, 1 Grey Plover, 5 Knot, 7 Sanderling, 8 Dunlin, 16 Bar-tailed Godwit, 7 Whimbrel, 1 Greenshank, 4 Redshank, 2 Turnstone, 1 Arctic Skua, 10 BH Gull, 3 Common Tern, 4 Swift, 2 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear.

Abbots Leigh:
Sandy Lane end: 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit.

Pill:

M5 Bridge/river Avon scrub: 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Portbury Wharf:
2 Wigeon, 2prs Oystercatcher, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 BH Gull.

Clevedon coast:
Wain's Hill-Yeo Est: 4 Canada Goose, 40 Shelduck, 2 Tufted Duck, 6 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 10 Oystercatcher, 12 Ringed Plover, 7 Grey Plover, just 1 Dunlin, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit (injured bird), 52 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 3 Common Sandpiper, 10 Redshank, 60 LBB Gull, 20 Herring Gull, 1 Arctic Tern, 1 Raven, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 8 Reed Warbler.

Churchill:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Spotted Flycatcher.

Sand Pt:
4 Grey Plover, 1 Cuckoo, 1 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Siskin, 6 Redpoll.

Backwell Lake:
4 adult Mute Swan, 8 cygnets.

Barrow Tanks:
1 Little Egret, 8 Common Sandpiper, 12 Swift, 25 Sand Martin (colony).

Blagdon Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, 1 Hobby, 3 Common Sandpiper. 

Litton Res:
1 Canada Goose, 3 Mallard broods, 8 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Woodpecker, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush.

Planet Chew:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Wigeon still, 1 Red Kite (3.20pm Mike Jenkins), 1 Marsh Harrier (Stratford side), 3 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sanderling, 1 Whimbrel, 9 Common Sandpiper, 2 Mediterranean Gull, 2 Black Tern, 8 Common Tern, 4 Cuckoo, 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Raven, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Treecreeper.

9/5/16 Sanderling (George Stacey)
on Heron's Green wall waiting for the tide to go out
this bird thought to be a different individual from the one here on 7 May

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Sean Davies, Dave Gibbs, Roger Hawley, Matt Hobbs, Mike Jenkins, Dave Nevitt, George Rabin, Dean Reeves, Alex Rhodes, Harvey Rose, Vic Savery, George Stacey, Chris Stone, Larry Sweetland, Mike Thomas, Mrs Trellis, BL birds, severnsidebirds.