April-June 2015
Places to visit
The Cotswold Water Park is well worth a visit with so many pits to look at there is always something to find, there should be Little Ringed Plover, Hobby, cuckoo, waders, terns and many warbler species
Severn Beach area can be very good for waders, the best area is between the 2 motorway bridges at Northwick Warth / New Passage area looking upriver from the last house and at the excellent new Pilning wetlands, Severn Beach sea wall can be worth a look an hour either side of the high tide if we get prolonged south west winds for terns and if you are lucky Skuas
Salisbury Plain can worth a look if passing through, if you are lucky you could find Stone Curlew, Hobby, Whinchat, Wheatear, Grasshopper Warbler, Turtle Dove and Quail
Recent Bird records (South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and the old county of Avon)
Reports in RED are my own sightings (number) = total species seen this year so far, I am trying to get to 250 in one year!
Total so far this year 219
JUNE
29th
Pectoral Sandpiper at Slimbridge (219)
27th
Nightjar, 2 wood warblers, tree pipit plus 5 Heath Fritillary and a green hairstreak (218)
23rd
Spotted Crake and 2 Grasshopper Warblers calling at Coombe Hill Meadows (217)
Quail Morgan’s Hill
21st
Quail singing at Marshfield
17th
Sandwich Tern and Mediterranean Gull at Northwick Warth
4 Red Kite just south east of Chippenham
16TH
Spotted Crake at coombe Hill Meadows Gloucestershire
9 Quail calling on Haxton Down
15th
Red Necked Phalarope and Garganey at Slimbridge
14th
Wood Lark in the New Forest Hampshire but no sign of the Black Eared Wheatear (215)
13th
Great White egret flew past Severn Beach
10th
I had an early start and went to the Somerset Levels, ( 5-9AM ) 2 Little Bittern, 4+ Bittern, 6+ Great White Egret, 10+ Little Egret, 4 Marsh Harrier, 9 Hobby, 4 Cuckoo, 67 Black Tailed Godwit plus 9 species of Warbler (214)
6 Bee-eaters again at Woolley near Bath plus 2+ Red Kite over
9th
6 Bee-eaters at Woolley near Bath
Red Kite over Bath Railway Station
7th
Wood warbler, 3 Pied Flycatcher, Redstart and a Tree Pipit in the Nagshead area of the forest of Dean (212)
4th
3 Red Kite together over Marshfield
Marsh Harrier at Langford Lakes
3rd
Black Winged Stilt and Honey Buzzard at Sidlesham Ferry West Sussex
Greater Yellowlegs and Bearded Tits at Titchfield Hampshire (209)
2nd
2 Storm Petrel, Pomarine Skua, 2 Arctic Skua, 4 Great Skua, Manx Shearwater and 4 Fulmar of Severn Beach
Black Winged Stilt
Duke of Burgundy
Whitethroat
Little Bittern
