Spotted Redshank is a wader in the large bird family
Scolopacidae, the typical waders. It is an Arctic bird,
breeding across northern Scandinavia and northern Asia. It
is migratory, wintering around the Mediterranean, southern
British Isles, France, tropical Africa and Asia, usually on
fresh or brackish water. Taxonomically, it forms a
close-knit group with Greater Yellowlegs and Greenshank,
which among them show all the basic leg and foot colours of
the shanks, demonstrating that this character is
paraphyletic. (a group contains its most recent common
ancestor but does not contain all the descendants of that
ancestor).
There have been around eighty Spotted Redshanks reported
from S. Gloucestershire;
2011: (1)
One was reported from New Passage on August 16th.
2010: (6)
One was seen near The Windbound at Sheppardine on February
27th; One was seen at New Passage, with a further two at
Severn Beach on September 5th; One was seen at New Passage
on Northwick Warth on September 30th; One flew from the
yacht club to Lagoon III at Oldbury Power Station on October
2nd.
2009: (2)
One was seen on Lagoon I at Oldbury Power Station on
September 16th; One was present on October 31st at New
Passage.
2008: (c.5)
On the 9th April two were logged just north of Oldbury Power
Station near Shepperdine; One was seen at Oldbury Power
Station on August 22nd; One was seen on Northwick Warth on
August 31st; At Oldbury Power Station one was present from
October 18th - 28th on Lagoon I and again from November 3rd
- 8th; The same or another was present on Lagoon I at
Oldbury Power Station on December 9th.
2007: (c.7)
One was heard and seen over Severn Beach on April 16th; One
was seen on Northwick Warth on September 29th - 30th; One
was seen at Littleton from September 29th to October 3rd;
One was seen at New Passage on October 1st which was still
present on October 4th; On the 23rd October one was noted at
Shepperdine the moved to Lagoon 1 at Oldbury Power Station
in the evening. It the commuted between Lagoon I and III on
October 27th - 28th; One was noted at Aust Warth on October
27th but moved to New Passage on October 28th; One was
present at New Passage on November 12th.
Spotted Redshank at Northwick Warth. September 2007. Paul
Bowerman.
2006: (c.4)
One was seen on Northwick Warth on October 13th; At Oldbury
Power Station individuals were noted on January 17th at
Shepperdine, 21st - 31st October on Lagoon I and again from
November 11th - 23rd at various locations including Lagoon I
and III and at Shepperdine.
2004: (1)
One was seen in flight past Northwick Warth on July 6th.
2003: (3)
One was seen on February 11th at New Passage; One was
present on August 25th at Severn Beach; One was seen on
Northwick Warth on November 22nd.
2002: (c.2)
In the Severn Beach/ New Passage area individuals were noted
on November 3rd & 10th and in December on the 14th & 21st.
2000: (c.3)
All records this year come from Oldbury Power Station:
Single birds were present on August 25th & 28th, September
16th and December 16th.
1999: (3)
All records this year come from Oldbury Power Station: A
summer plumaged adult was seen April 28th and juveniles were
noted on August 26th - 27th and September 8th.
1998: (2)
All records this year come from Oldbury Power Station: Two
were seen on July 3rd and one was present on September 5th -
6th.
1997: (4)
All records this year come from Oldbury Power Station:
Single birds were noted on September 14th, October 26th,
November 2nd & 9th.
1995: (6)
One was seen at Oldbury Power Station on July 26th and a
record five were noted here on August 13th.
1994: (c.2)
One was seen at Oldbury Power Station and possible refers to
the same individual on, July 10th, August 9th & 24th, and
September 17th - 18th; One was seen at New Passage on
October 30th.
1993: (c.5)
All records this year come from Oldbury Power Station:
Single birds were noted on July 23rd, August 16th, between
September 11th - 15th; Two were seen on October 16th.
1992: (2)
One was reported from Northwick Warth on August 31st; Two
were seen on Northwick Warth on September 15th.
1991: (1)
One was seen on October 31st at Oldbury Power Station.
1990: (3)
One was seen at Oldbury Power Station on April 24th; One was
noted at Oldbury Power Station on August 21st; One was seen
at Oldbury Power Station on September 6th - 9th.
1988: (1)
One was seen at Severn Beach on September 9th.
1987: (2)
One was seen at New Passage on September 11th; One was noted
at New Passage on September 20th - 24th.
1985: (1)
One was recorded at Aust Warth on August 20th.
1984: (c.7)
Three were seen in January at Oldbury Power Station and one
was noted at the same site in February; Up to four were
reported throughout September and up to the 12th October at
Oldbury Power Station.
1983: (4)
Three were present at Oldbury Power Station throughout
August; One was seen at Oldbury Power Station on December
30th.
1982: (1)
One was seen at Severn Beach on September 9th.
1981: (1)
One was reported on Northwick Warth on September 6th.
1980: (1)
One in full breeding plumage was seen on May 30th at Oldbury
Power Station.
1978: (1)
One was noted on Northwick Warth on September 3rd.
1976: (1)
One was seen at New Passage on August 17th.
1957: (1)
Two were reported in flight at Severn Beach on September
15th.
1955: (1)
One was seen on a small pond at Dyrham Park on September 9th
- 16th and again on September 23rd.
1954: (2)
Two were noted in flight and on the mud banks on the R.
Severn at Shepperdine on November 17th. This occurrence
constitutes the first report of this species in S.
Gloucestershire.