Sightings 25/2/11

SLIMBRIDGE WWT:

25.2.11 Mediterranean Gull © JS Lees, many thanks.
The bright red bill is a surprisingly good field mark, even at range

5 Mediterranean Gulls around the reserve today (per slimbridgebirds).

MARSHFIELD:

25.2.11 Corn Bunting © Wilf King, many thanks
Marshfield is the stronghold for this species in Avon

Single Buzzard, 7 Skylark, 60 Fieldfare, 40 Yellowhammer and 6 Corn Bunting before rain stopped play (W King).

HENEAGE COURT:
On the pools: 6 Greylag Goose, 30 Canada Goose and 3 Mandarin Duck, 2♂, 1♀ (RF Reader).

OLDBURY POWER STATION:
85 Wigeon, 48 Teal, 161 Dunlin, 65 Curlew, 36 Redshank, 86 Common Gull and a ♀ Stonechat at Lagoon 3 (A Middleton).

SEVERNSIDE:
New Passage: 72 Shelduck, 40 Wigeon, 17 Oystercatcher, 45 Dunlin, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 11 Redshank and 115+ Turnstone.

Severn Beach: a female Blackcap in one of the gardens.

Chittening Warth: 36 Oystercatcher, single Golden Plover and 2 Great Black-backed Gull at the Stup Pill section (per severnsidebirds).

PORTISHEAD:
3 Purple Sandpipers at Battery Pt today (J Thorogood).

CLEVEDON COAST:
8 Avocet at the mouth of the Yeo Est today (H Taffs). Possibly, breakaway birds from the Parrett Est flock.


Goa (India):
Paul Bowyer's trip photos now posted to his website at http://www.birdlist.co.uk/goa2011.htm.