SEPTEMBER 2024

 

Sunday 1st

RED KITE: (1) One over Downend today. (Barry Dursley

 

Monday 2nd

Still seven RING-NECKED PARAKEET attending feeders in a private garden at Stoke Park | A PIED FLYCATCHER was logged in the Aust STW area, Aust this morning. (Steve Richardson, Andy Stockhausen)

 

Tuesday 3rd

A juvenile LITTLE STINT, the first of the year, was found in the Pilning Wetlands/ New Passage area today along with three AVOCET. Nearby the first BLACK TERN of the year was seen heading south-west off Aust Cliffs, Aust. (Severnside Birds, Andy Stockhausen)

 

Little Stint | South Glos Birds

 

Wednesday 4th

A female type MARSH HARRIER was seen in the Pilning Wetlands/ New Passage area today. (Severnside Birds)

 

Thursday 5th

Six RING-NECKED PARAKEET still attending feeders in a private garden at Stoke Park | A PIED FLYCATCHER was present briefly in the Severn View Services area, Aust this morning. (Steve Richardson, Matt Hobbs)

 

Friday 6th

An OSPREY was seen in flight to the north past Severn Beach and the same or another was watched fishing on the Tidal Reservoir, Oldbury Power Station this afternoon before departing up-river around 16:00. (Severnside Birds, Pete Hazelwood)

 

Saturday 7th

The same or another OSPREY was present around the Tidal Reservoir, Oldbury Power Station until around 09:00 and then past the Pilning Wetlands/ New Passage at 10:15. A second bird was noted in flight to the south-west past Severn View Services/ Aust STW around mid-day | A GRASSHOPPER WARBLER was showing very well on Lagoon III, Oldbury Power Station this morning | Ten AVOCET were seen in flight to the north-east from the Severn View Services/ Aust STW area four of which were noted at Thornbury Sailing Club, Oldbury-on-Severn | A juvenile BLACK REDSTART was present in The Jetty area at Oldbury Power Station | Thirty-seven LITTLE EGRET counted at Severn Beach. (Pete Hazelwood, Matt Hall, Severnside Birds)

 

Grasshopper Warbler | Pete Hazelwood