This evening: 3 Buzzard, single Kestrel, a male Peregrine, 3 Curlew, 23 Turnstone, 900 BH Gull and 2 Raven.
SEVERNSIDE: per severnsidebirds
New Passage:
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| 11.8.11 adult & juvenile Mediterranean Gull © Paul Bowerman, many thanks |
Severn Beach: the Ringed Plover roost increased to 55 birds. Numbers should peak later in the month.
PORTBURY WHARF: combined reports, S Emery, S Hale
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| 11.8.11 Greenshank on the main pool this afternoon worse pics available on request. |
Other sightings, a Hobby, a possible 'argentatus' Herring Gull, the usual Little Owl and 2 Sand Martins.
Check out the Hobby on: http://www.youtube.com/user/AvianFilms?feature=mhee#p/u/0/rQIwEcOqDjA. DUNKERTON: J Martin
Desperate to add to his UK life-list, we received these photos from the Avon Recorder today, showing an (escaped?) exotic White-cheeked Turaco which has been present around Dunkerton recently.
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| White-cheeked Turaco, Tauraco leucotis |
The stronghold for White-cheeked Turaco is East Africa, mainly around the Eritrea-Ethiopia highlands, though our Dunkerton is in the rolling hills between Bath and Midsomer Norton and someway to the north of the Great Rift valley.
White-cheeked Turacos do well in captivity and they first bred here in the UK in 1964 and are quite a common and popular species in zoos and bird collections.
Many thanks John......and especially to Giles Wagstaff who found the bird and took the photos.
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