Sightings 3/9/2016

Wet and miserable after noon.  Late update.

Red Grouse this morning (Jenny Vickers) 
- so where is your blogger today?  (clue: it was just as wet as Somerset)

Filton Pool (A38 opp Filton Airfield):
Mute Swan, 5 Mallard, Coot family, Moorhen.

Bristol, Stockwood Open Space:
4 Jay, 10 Magpie, 6 Linnet, 5 Goldfinch.

3-9-16 Ringed Plover (Rod Holbrook)
Severn Beach

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Little Egret, 1 Greenshank, 33 Redshank, 1 ad winter Mediterranean Gull (in high tide roost), Yellow Wagtail (over), 4 Wheatear all at yacht club.

Littleton Brick Pits

Hobby

Cake Pill, Aust:
4 Shelduck, 35 Oystercatcher, 11 Dunlin, 9 Curlew, 12 Redshank,  30 hirundines including 2 Sand Martins, 35 Starlings.

3-9-16 Dunlin (Rod Holbrook)
Severn Beach

3-9-16 Turnstone (Rod Holbrook)
Severn Beach

3-9-16 juv Black Tern (Paul Bowerman)
Pilning Wetland

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
Hobby,8+ Knot, juv Curlew Sandpiper, 50 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Greenshank, juv Black Tern, Kingfisher, 4 Sand Martin, 3 Yellow Wagtail, Whitethroat.

3-9-16 Kingfisher (John Martin)
New Passage

Sea Mills:
78 Redshank, 5 Common Sandpiper.

Blagdon Lake:
2 Garganey, 5 Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper.

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Teresa Chard, Mark Dadds, Peter Hazelwood, Rod Holbrook, John Martin, Lois Pryce, Tony Scott, blagdonbirds