TBOSG     S. Glos News 2005

December:

30th:

A male Goosander was seen at New Passage.

20th:

A Hawfinch was seen again at Brimsham Park.

18th:

A Hawfinch was seen at Brimsham Park in Yate at around 12:15.

17th:

A Snow Bunting was seen in flight at Severn Beach.

13th:

A Goosander was seen at Badminton.

10th:

A Cetti's Warbler was seen and heard at Severn Beach and was present until December 23rd.

November:

20th:

A Waxwing was seen at Severn Beach.

12th:

A pair of Hawfinch were seen in a garden at North Common in Warmley.

11th:

A Leach's Petrel was seen at Severn Beach at around 14:15 and lingered for a while and a Purple Sandpiper was also at Severn Beach today.

4th:

Two Leach's Petrel were noted at Severn Beach, one at 09:18 but both in the morning plus a juvenile Pomarine Skua. A winter male Dartford Warbler was still present at Severn Beach approximately one kilometre south of the village.

October:

31st:

A winter male Dartford Warbler was found at Severn Beach approximately one kilometre south of the village.

27th:

A Cetti's Warbler was reported from Orchard Pools near Severn Beach.

25th:

An adult pale morph Pomarine Skua was seen off Severn Beach.

24th:

Twenty Tree Sparrows were reported from the 'Marshfield' area. A Cetti's Warbler was reported from Orchard Pools near Severn Beach.

23rd:

Two Garganey were still present at New Passage.

22nd:

Two Garganey were seen at New Passage.

21st:

A Cetti's Warbler was reported from Orchard Pools near Severn Beach.

20th:

A juvenile male Hen Harrier  was seen to drift over the Bristol/ S. Gloucestershire boundary in the Chittening Warth area.

18th:

A single Snow Bunting was found at New Passage.

17th:

Six Avocet were seen together until around 09:30 when they flew off west from New Passage.

13th:

A Cetti's Warbler was reported from Severn Beach and was present until October 18th.

10th:

A Cetti's Warbler was reported from Orchard Pools near Severn Beach.

5th:

At New Passage two Dartford Warblers, a male and female/ 1st winter male were found on Northwick Warth. They constitutes the first record for this species in S. Gloucestershire and were present until October 12th.

3rd:

A Pectoral Sandpiper was seen briefly in flight heading north at Oldbury Power Station.

5th:

The juvenile Willow Tit was reported still at Lower Woods, Hawksbury.

3rd:

A juvenile Willow Tit was reported at Lower Woods, Hawksbury.

20th:

A Montagu's Harrier was found by Rob Laughton at Rushmead Lane/ Tormarton Road near Marshfield. It was aged as a 2nd calendar male and was seen in flight north-west towards West Littleton at 20:00 and was present until June 22nd.

18th:

A male Cetti's Warbler heard at Oldbury Power Station.

5th:

An adult Red Kite was seen early morning over the junction of A46/ A420 at Cold Ashton.

21st:

A Red Kite was seen in the Rangeworthy/ Iron Acton area.

16th:

A male Garganey was seen at Severn Beach.

14th:

A presumed adult Red Kite was seen in Shire Valley north of Marshfield.

9th:

A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was heard calling at Golden Valley LNR in Wick.

7th:

A Pomarine Skua was seen at Severn Beach.

6th:

A Red Kite was watched over Filton Airfield.

5th:

A male Garganey was seen in flight at Severn Beach.

2nd:

A singing male Wood Warbler was seen and photographed at New Passage.

26th:

A Wood Warbler was noted at Vineyard's Brake near Thornbury.

18th:

A Wood Warbler was heard at Lower Woods near Hawksbury.

16th:

A female Mandarin was found at Littley Wood near Hawksbury.

14th:

A flock of thirty Waxwing wee seen at Longwell Green.

5th:

A male Garganey was noted at Oldbury Power Station. (Present until April 17th).

2nd:

An Osprey was noted flying north-east at around 19:00 over the tidal reservoir at Oldbury Power Station. This male Ring Ouzel was found and photographed in a garden at New Passage. A Scandinavian Chiffchaff was noted at Emerson's Green.

1st:

Four Garganey including three males were seen off New Passage.

27th:

A Scandinavian Chiffchaff was noted at Emerson's Green. An Osprey flew inland east from Severn Beach.

20th:

Three Red-breasted Merganser, two males and a female were seen at Severn Beach. Also an adult Red Kite was seen flying east over Severn Beach.

10th:

Three Avocet were seen at Severn Beach.

9th:

Four Waxwing were seen at Filton with six present on March 10th.

5th:

At least three Water Pipit were on the salt marsh at Severn Beach with at least one remaining until March 16th. A Scandinavian Rock Pipit was found at Severn Beach. It was presumed to be a winter adult and was on the Spartina approximately a kilometre south of the village and remained in the area until March 10th.

5th:

A Water Pipit was seen at Severn Beach.

2nd:

A pair of Mandarin were noted at Tortworth Court Lake. A Ring-necked Parakeet was reported in mid February at Longwell Green, no age or date were given. In February counts of Waxwing started with twenty-two from Morton Way in Thornbury, twenty-one were seen in Mangotsfield on Northcote Road, about thirty-five on Tower Road in Warmley, thirty-eight were in the trees between Hawthorn Road and Downend Road and sixty near the BT building on Chestnut Road. A hundred and twenty-two were noted in Cadbury Heath near Parkwall Primary School on Earlstone Crescent and at Downend a massive a hundred and fifty around the cricket pitch. Near Thornbury at Eastwood Park numbers peaked at thirty-five and in the Patchway/ Filton/ Stoke Gifford an impressive a hundred and fifty.

31st:

A Hen Harrier was seen at Northfield Lane near Marshfield.

22nd:

A Water Pipit was noted at Severn Beach and was still present on January 25th. This year's UK invasion of Waxwing eventually reached the west country on January 22nd. There were probably in excess of five hundred birds involved peaking on February 7th at around a hundred and fifty. They were noted across the region in January at; Bromley Heath with twenty-two, noted as numerous on the A38 between Falfield and Whitfield, there were fifteen on Morton Way in Thornbury early morning, twenty-six early afternoon and fifty-three late afternoon, forty-three were at Longwell Green on Lacock Drive, forty were in the car park of the King William pub in Warmley, a hundred and thirty-five were at Mangotsfield in trees opposite Mangotsfield School, at Longwell Green about a hundred were seen on Lacock Drive.

21st:

A Goshawk was seen near Marshfield over the lane from West Littleton Lane at Rushmead Lane.

13th:

Two adult Whooper Swan were found on Northwick Warth. Present until January 16th when they were seen to fly off north-east.

1st:

An over wintering Siberian Chiffchaff was seen at Emerson's Green and was present until March 28th. It constitutes the first record of this form in S. Gloucestershire.

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