Little Stint
Whinchat
Common Tern
Curlew Sandpiper
Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Black-necked Grebe
Bittern
Cattle Egret
BRISTOL
No reports
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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| 01-10-2019 Common Tern Northwick Warth (Paul Bowerman) |
1 Great Crested Grebe - 1st this year, 1 Avocet, 1 Grey Plover - juv, 11 Black-tailed Godwit, 200+ Knot, 1 Ruff, 2 Curlew Sandpiper - juv, 600 Dunlin, 1 Little Stint - juv, 100 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Common Tern, 1 Peregrine - juv, flushed the above, 1 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 4 Wheatear.
NORTH SOMERSET
Pill - allotments:
50-60 Starling - flying all higgledy piggledy, flapping then gliding, in strange postures - noted before anyone?
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| 01-10-2019 Redshank - Gull Portbury Warth (Chris Stone) |
Shoveler, 170c Redshank, 1 Peregrine
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| 01-10-2019 Little Stint - Dunlin Cl-Y (Howard Taffs) |
1 Grey Plover, 3 Golden Plover, 10 Ringed Plover, 190 Curlew, 20 Turnstone, 50 Knot, 1 Little Stint, 10 Dunlin. Vismig south - 1 Sand Martin, 200c House Martin, 100c Meadow Pipit
Dolebury Warren - BOC walk - 3 stout hearted folk:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Jays, 4 Raven, 2 Swallow, 12 House Martin - plus 13 in small groups 2s&3s on the move, plus the usual suspects.
BELOW M4 & BANES
No reports
RESERVOIRS
Chew Valley Lake
10 Great White Egret, 3 Stonechat,
Villice:
1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv,
Heron's Green:
1 Bittern - flew across the bay, 3 Cattle Egret - to midday before two of them flew off towards the fields along Bickfield Lane, 13 Little Egret,
CVRS - field:
8 Great White Egret, 1 Collared Dove - rare here!
RARITY NOTES NEEDED
All the following claims of locally rare species have been noted by the BOC during 2019 but they all lack the confirmatory details needed so the Recorder's Committee can assess them. If you saw any of the birds on the list can you please supply some identification notes, or an identifiable image, to avonbirds@hotmail.co.uk
Great Northern Diver 1 10/01/2019 Barrow Gurney Res.
Tree Sparrow 25/01/2019 Bristol, Clifton, Richmond Hill
Hen Harrier 1 ring tail 17/03/2019 Chew Valley Lake (CVL), Heron's Green
Tree Sparrow 3 24/03/2019 Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Wain's Hill
Goshawk 1 29/03/2019 Clevedon, Kennaway Rd
Cattle Egret 1 08/04/2019 Uphill, The Grange Heronry
Hen Harrier 1 17/04/2019 Clevedon-Yeo (Cl-Y), Dowlais
Turtle Dove 2 22/04/2019 Old Sodbury
Nordic Jackdaw 23/04/2019 Portbury Wharf
Channel Wagtail 1 ♂ 26/04/2019 New Passage / Northwick Warth, PWL
Channel Wagtail 1 27/04/2019 New Passage / Northwick Warth, PWL
Spoonbill 1 sub ad 05/05/2019 Portbury Wharf
Cattle Egret 2 05/05/2019 Chew Valley Lake (CVL)
Goshawk 1 30/06/2019 Hunstrete Plantation
Goshawk 1 23/07/2019 Little Sodbury
Sabine's Gull 1 10/08/2019 Severn Beach
Wryneck 1 29/08/2019 Channel View Farm
Reports: Paul Bowerman, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Rich Mielcarek, Paul Milsom, Aravind Ramesh, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Mark Watson.
