Friday, 5 August 2011

Sightings 5/8/11

CHIPPING SODBURY:
5.8.11 Woodchat Shrike © Allan Chard, many thanks
still present but elusive at times
OLDBURY POWER STATION:
(Yacht club area): 12 Canada Goose, 1 Shelduck with a new brood (lagoon 1), 23 Redshank, 514 BH Gull, a Wheater and 3 juvenile Yellow Wagtail (A Middleton).

SEVERNSIDE: highlights per severnsidebirds
Aust Warth: 5 Kestrel and 5 Common Sandpiper.

New Passage: an adult winter Mediterranean Gull this morning.

CLEVEDON COAST: Wain's to Yeo 9-11.15am
4 Shelduck (+10 young), 90 mallard, 2 Cormorant, 2 Little Egret, the GC Grebe still, 1 Sparrowhawk, 9 Oystercatcher, 18 Ringed Plover, 260 Dunlin, single Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Whimbrel, 225 Curlew, 12 Common Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 120 Redshank, 700 BH Gull, 1 Green Woodpecker, single Wheatear and 200 Linnet (S Sanins).

SAND BAY/PT:
6 Wheatear in the bay (R Skipp).

Slimbridge 4/8/11:
the Spoonbill, now assuming squatter's rights

Wood Sandpiper

Sandwich Tern

Yellow Wagtail, all photos © Alex Rhodes,many thanks
30+ on site yesterday

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