Wednesday 13 September 2017

13th Sept '17 Wednesday - Leach's Petrel

Cold, rainy and very windy, from WNW. Sunny warm afternoon

13-9-17 Leach's Petrel  at Severn Beach (Dan White)
Leach's Petrel
Arctic Skua, Sabine's GullArctic & Black TernGuillemot
Woodchat Shrike?
Curlew Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper
Yellow Wagtail
13-9-17 Leach's Petrel at Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)
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BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
20 House Martin

Filton, BS7 0RT:
1 Swift

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Manx Shearwater in bill of GBB Gull, 1 Gannet and 1 Kittiwake upriver, 7 Arctic Tern, 1 Guillemot

13-9-17 Common Tern at NP (John Martin)
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Little Egret, 10 Ringed Plover, 70 Dunlin, 2 Ruff, 120 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 j Bar-tailed Godwit, 36 Turnstone, 2 1w Common Tern, 1 Yellow Wagtail

13-9-17 Sabine's Gull at Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)
Severn Beach:
1 Fulmar, 5+ Manx Shearwater, 3 Leach's Petrel, 1 Gannet, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 juv. Sabine's Gull, 2+ Arctic Tern
13-9-17 Sabine's Gull at Severn Beach (Adam Rawson)
Chipping Sodbury Common, 12th:
1 juv Woodchat Shrike, Whitethroat, Spotted Flycatcher, WhinchatYellow Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET:

Sand Point:
Lots Shelduck, 2 Raven, 1 Wheatear, 4 Rock Pipit


13-9-17 Manx Shearwater at Severn Beach (Adam Rawson)
Weston-Super Mare, Anchor Head:
19 Manx Shearwater, 4 Leach's Petrel, 1 Gannet, 1 Cormorant, 1 Wood Sandpiper

Uphill:
c.1000 Shelduck

BELOW M4 & BANES

RESERVOIRS:
Black-tailed Godwit at Herriotts  (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake:
3 Egyptian Geese, 5 Little Egret, 6 Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Peregrine, 20 Ringed Plover, 3 Lapwing, 1 Sanderling, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 6 Ruff, 21 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 2 Black Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 2 Reed Bunting

13-9-17 Greenshank & Black-tailed Godwit at CVL (George Stacey)

Yesterday's Terrapin in Herriotts channel  (Ian Stapp)          
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