Monday 23 September 2024

23-09-24 Monday - Purple Sandpiper

Temp 16°C to 17°C - Heavy rain- more than 30mm fell today to go with the 23mm from yesterday. Almost no wind. The rain meant Chew had less mud today and Herriot's Pool was raging. Floods made roads difficult and the road and path to Stratford hide were impassable. Still some good birds seen today but let's hope we don't need to start building arks just yet-seems like only 5 minutes since the last lot.

With the recent Shag, the Avon year list stands at 214, viewable here. Or see the checklist of Avon birds here.

 It is not too late to sign up to the BTO winter gull survey that is taking place this or next week, still some local sites available: https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/winter-gull-survey

Purple Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
3 Osprey
Little Stint

BRISTOL

No reports.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
WeBS: 2 Teal, 6 Wigeon, 5 Coot, 4 Lapwing, 36 Ringed Plover, 81 Curlew, 1 Bar tailed Godwit, 2 Black tailed Godwit, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 GBB Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Chaffinch

NorthwickWarth/Pilning Wetlands:
1 Pintail, 25 Ringed Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Turnstone, 1 juv Little Stint, 48 Redshank, 6 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher

New Passage:
3 Pintail, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin
23-09-24 Purple Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)
Severn Beach:
1 Purple Sandpiper

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon:
Garden: 1 Magpie

BELOW M4 & BANES

Chew Magna:
13 Little Egret

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
WeBS: 20 Canada Goose, 51 Mute Swan -- Inc 4 juv, 52 Eurasian Wigeon, 21 Northern Pintail, 46 Common Pochard, 616 Tufted Duck, 38 Little Grebe, 35 Great Crested Grebe, 78 Moorhen, 1243 Eurasian Coot -- WeBS count, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Northern Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Egret, 10 Great White Egret

Chew Valley Lake
23-09-24 Spotted Redshank, CVL (Bri Thompson)
Herons Green:
1 Black Swan, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Redshank

Stratford:
69 Pintail, 8 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Osprey, 2 Marsh Harrier, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Hobby
23-09-24 Osprey, CVL (Bri Thompson)
Herriotts inc. Pool:
No waders, 1 Marsh Harrier

Reported by: Paul Bowerman, Andy Davis, Andy Gibb, Rob Hargreaves, MJ, Andrew Middleton, Nick Page, Nigel Povey, Ian Stapp, Andy Stockhausen, Bri Thompson blagdonlakebirds, CVRSopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG