Garganey
Scaup
Swift
Knot, Ruff, Curlew Sandpipers
Wood Sandpiper
Gannet
Yellow-legged Gull
Arctic Terns, Black Tern
Cattle Egret
Whinchats
Rose-coloured Starling
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| Common (not Arctic, sorry) Tern over Chew today (David Hughes) |
Clifton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Tit (fortunately not at the same time).
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| Sparrowhawk about to murder a Goldfinch (Pete Bunniss) |
Oldbury Power Station:
A freshly dead Gannet (on the seawall between jetty and waterworks).
Pillhead Gout (high tide): 2 Knot, c.60 Dunlin, c.150 Ringed Plover, 2 Turnstone.
14+ Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat (Lagoon 2).
A Common Seal (out in the middle of the estuary at Shepperdine).
New Passage/Northwick:
ad. Gannet offshore, 196 Ringed Plover, 156 Dunlin, 2 juv. Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Knot, 51 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, Raven eating the dead porpoise.
Pilning Wetlands:
250+ Starling, 1 juv. Rose-coloured Starling
Sea Mills and R.Avon:
10 Mallard, 3 Lapwing, 2 Ringed Plover, 5 Common Sandpiper, 35 Redshank, 60 BH Gull, 1 Herring Gull, 4 House Martin.
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Whinchat, 5 Redstart ( 2 ad., 3 juv.), few Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff.
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| Sanderling with Dunlins and Ringed Plovers at Channel View (Howard Taffs) |
Clevedon-Yeo, Channel View:
150 Ringed Plover, 50 Dunlin, 2 Sanderling, 6 Turnstone, 1 Whimbrel, 2 Knot, 8 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat. (No sign of reported Golden Plover or Curlew Sandpiper)
Backwell Lake:
Mute Swans, BH Gulls and LBB Gulls.
Grey Heron, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard. Kingfisher, Cetti’s Warbler (heard four times)
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| Sparrowhawk over Nailsea (Robin Martin) |
Sparrowhawk over LIDL, near the Hospital.
Uphill (WeBS count):
40 Shelduck, 87 Mallard. (2 Moorhen at Weston STW.)
104 Oystercatcher, 24 Curlew, 7 Knot, 2 Ruff, 8 Black-tailed Godwit, 35 Redshank.
180 BH Gull, 1 GBB Gull, 5 Herring Gull, 47 LBB Gull (including lots of imms.)
2 Grey Heron, 8 Little Egret.
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
1 Swift over Englishcombe Lane at 15:15 hrs.
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| Ruff and Greenshank with Teal at CVL (George Stacey) |
Barrow Tanks:
juv. Scaup
Blagdon Lake WeBS count:
28 Canada Goose, 84 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose, 4 Garganey, 77 Shoveler, 281 Gadwall, 1 Wigeon, 575 Mallard, 269 Teal, 80 Pochard, 455 Tufted Duck, 67 Moorhen, 1378 Coot, 41 Little Grebe, 62 Great Crested Grebe, 12 Lapwing, 7 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper, 21 GBB Gull, 1 Arctic Tern, 12 Cormorant, 18 Grey Heron, 8 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel.
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| Black-tailed Godwits at Chew (George Stacey) |
1 Snipe, 7 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Arctic Tern, 1 Black Tern.
10 Great White Egret, 12 Little Egret.
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| Long-tailed Tit at Chew (George Stacey) |
6 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Long-tailed Tit.
Villice:
1 Hobby.
Heron's Green:
1 ad. Yellow-legged Gull
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| Cattle Egret from Stratford (Bri Thompson) |
1 Cattle Egret (flew off south mid-morning), 1 Sparrowhawk hiding in the reedbed. 1 Hobby, 1 Kingfisher.
Herriott's inc Pool:
3 Pintail, 1 Ruff, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Greenshank, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper.
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| And finally, an "honorary bird"... an irresistible photograph of Foxes at Villice Bay (David Hughes) |
Reports: Paul Bowerman, Bryan Cook, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis, David Esam, Rob Hargreaves & Blagdon WeBS team, David Hughes, Robin Martin, Aravind Ramesh, Tony Scott, George Stacey, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, Paul Williams, Gordon Youdale, blagdonlakebirds, opsbirding, severnsidebirds
