Sightings 30-8-16

Beautiful sunny day.
A juvenile Garganey at Butt's Pool, Pilning Wetland and a Little Stint at Royal Portbury Dock.

30/8/16 Decent shot of barbed wire with Nuthatch (Rod Holbrook)

Bristol, Eastville Park:
1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Bristol, Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzards, formation flying Raven with Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 Swift east, 1 Kingfisher, a swarm of 50 House Martins with a dozen Swallows, 1 Chiffchaff calling.

30/8/16 Grey Heron at Duchess Pond, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
As the French say "Faute de grives on mange des merles"
("For lack of thrushes one eats blackbirds" - but what is the equivalent English idiom?)

Bristol, Stockwood:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 1 Bullfinch, 6 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch.


Oldbury Power Station:
3 Little Egret, 52 Ringed Plover, 1 Sanderling, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 104 Dunlin, 16 Redshank,

45 Turnstone, 3 Curlew,  7 Chiffchaff, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Redstart , 1 Wheatear,  60 Goldfinch 

New Passage/Northwick:
juv Garganey (Butt's Pool), 14 Shoveler, j f Ruff, 23 Black-tailed Godwit, j uv Curlew Sandpiper
with Dunlin roosting on Flash), 2 Greenshank, 2 Wheatear

30/8/2016 Juvenile Garganey at Pilning Wetland (Paul Bowerman Severnside Birds) 

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Up to 8 Whinchats and 2 Wheatears late evening 7.20 - 8.00

Royal Portbury Dock:
3 Oycestercatchers, 33 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Stint, 85 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 42 Redshank, 2 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Willow Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 

2 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 10 Greenfinch.

30/8/16 Wheatear at Royal Portbury Dock (Mrs Trellis)

Winthill, Banwell:

4 Common Buzzards together,  2 Ravens, 1 Peregrine.

Clevedon-Yeo:

1 Moorhen, 1 Coot, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Oystercatcher, 5 Curlew, 2 Redshank, 250+ widely-scattered Black-headed Gull, 1 Skylark, 15 Swallow, flock 50+ Starlings, 6 Wheatear, 5 young (downy) Sparrows on a bramble bush with adult male - doing short flights out and back, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 young (still downy) Rock Pipit, 12 Linnet, flock 45 Goldfinch.

Kenn Moor:
1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Raven. 4 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff,
1 Redstart, 1 Wheatear.

Weston-Super-Mare, Airfield: 
7 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 1 Swift, 1 Tree Pipit

Chew Valley Lake:

Heron's Green:

4 Buzzard (1 the white bird), 4 Swallows

Moreton:

3 Wigeon 2 Buzzard 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Chiffchaff (young birds calling)

Herriotts End:
2 Little Egret (lake side), 1 Kingfisher

30/8/16 Early mornng at Chew Valley Lake (John F. Duffy)

Reports: Teresa Chard, Adrian Hockey, Rod Holbrook, Jeff Hozier, Andy Middleton, Lois Pryce, Trevor Riddle, Richard Scantlebury, Martin Tayler, John Thorogood, Roger White