Sightings 25/7/11

BRISTOL:
Bath cycle track: 2 Peregrine (St Phillips), a Chiffchaff and 3 Bullfinch (R Scantlebury).


CHIPPING SODBURY:
the Common: a Buzzard, 3 Lapwing, a Whitethroat, the male Redstart still, an adult Spotted Flycatcher + 2 juveniles, 1 Bullfinch and lots of Skylark and Linnet (combined reports, W King, D Pearce).

SEVERNSIDE: per severnsidebirds
Aust Warth: the juvenile Redstart still present, 1 Lesser Whitethroat and a family of 6 Chiffchaff.

25.7.11 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls © Paul Bowerman, many thanks

New Passage: 7 Oystercatcher, 2 Dunlin, 55 Redshank, 15 Turnstone, 5 Common Sandpiper, 300 BH Gull and 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gull (evening).

CLEVEDON COAST:
Wain's Hill - Yeo Est: 18 Canada Goose, 19 Shelduck (+ 10 young), 50 Mallard, 8 Little Egret, 10 Oystercatcher, 25 Lapwing, 9 Sanderling (influx at Yeo Est), 80 Dunlin, 5 Whimbrel, 150 Curlew, 10 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 90 Redshank, 800 BH Gull, single Raven, 6 Skylark, 65 Goldfinch and 225 Linnet (S Sanins).

PORTBURY WHARF:

25.7.11 Tufted Duck brood out on north pools this afternoon
© Sightings Page team, many thanks

BARROW TANKS: 

25.7.11 a Dunlin © Sightings Page team, many thanks
No.3 tank this morning, also 3 Common Sandpiper

CHEW VALLEY LAKE: 

25.7.11 a Roe Deer © Sightings Page team, many thanks
Heron's Green pool

Heron's Green: 8 Little Egret, 2 Water Rail, 4 Green Sandpiper and 2 Common Sandpiper.

Stratford: 1 Common Sandpiper.

Herriott's: 1 Garganey, 2 Little Egret, 2 sleeping Spoonbill (reported by S Davies this morning but birds were present here 6pm last night apparently, per CJ Stone), 2 Water Rail, and single Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper and a moulting adult Mediterranean Gull.

Elsewhere, 50+ Lapwing dotted about the lake (S Hale).