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A bad day birding is infinitely better than a good day at work! UK species and forms - 623 😉
Just love seeing these stunning Black Redstart… #ukbirding
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September 27th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
The South Glos Birds 2025 year list realised 200 species and forms this week (full total 204) with the addition of Pectoral Sandpiper spotted on Pilning Wetlands, New Passage on the 27th.
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Rounded off an excellent week with a Sabine’s gull from Severn Beach, pushed up the channel on squally weather. Also, 8+ Manx, comic and black tern, and spoonbill all on the river.
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September 12th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our first record of White-rumped Sandpiper...
1985
A juvenile/ 1st winter at Severn Beach from September 12th - 13th. Found by @severnsidebirds.bsky.social Our first of just five records to date!
📸 Courtesy of @markcoller.bsky.social
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September 10th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
A rather splendid day as I recall.... 😊
Wilson's Phalarope in 1994 at Steart, Somerset
Green Warbler in 2021 at Buckton, E. Yorkshire
White-tailed Plover in 2021 at Blacktoft Sands, Yorkshire
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September 9th:
It's always a pleasant surprise when one of these comes to visit! 😊
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September 9th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our first record of Woodlark...
1941:
Six on fallow ground adjoining Sea Wall Farm, Severn Beach on September 9th.
Around 30 have been seen in S Glos since the first and all between February and November (except May and July)
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September 7th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
It's always a delight to watch these enigmatic and highly entertaining birds...
A hill somewhere in Gloucestershire in 2022... 😊
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Photo courtesy of Ian Wilson, many thanks! 👍🏻
September 7th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our first, and to date, only record of Sooty Shearwater.
1974 (1)
One seen from Aust during a storm on September 7th was watched for around three hours and may also have been seen subsequently from New Passage.
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September 6th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Blimey! What a day this was....
Gull-billed Tern in 1987 - Plym Estuary, S. Devon
Laughing Gull in 1988 - Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
Brown Booby in 2019 - The Lizard, Cornwall
Buff-breasted Sandpiper in 2019 - Davidstow, Cornwall
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... What a treat! 😊
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September 4th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
This very confiding juvenile Sabine's Gull showed extremely well on shoreside pools, on the south-west side of Brue Pill, River Huntspill on this day last year!
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September 4th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our highest count of Sabine's Gull - Six on 04/09/1983 from New Passage.
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September 1st:
A super Buff-breasted Sandpiper at CVLake, Somerset today was a very welcome start to the autumn passage.
It was performing nicely on and off on Nunnery Point despite the, sometimes, torrential rain.
Here's one from a past encounter!
Apologies, I can't recall who took this photo but many thanks! 👍🏻
August 31st: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
EASTERN OLIVACEOUS WARBLER
Iduna pallida
AGE: A 1st winter
DATE: August 31st 2003
LOCATION: Portland Bill, Dorset
BRITISH RECORD: 11th
@bexbirder.bsky.social
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Photos' courtesy of @Severnsidebirds - many thanks! 👍🏻
August 30th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
A great 'shrike' day in S. Glos!
Red-backed Shrike in 2003 - Severn Beach
Woodchat Shrike in 2017 on Chipping Sodbury Common
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@markcoller.bsky.social
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August 29th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Marsh Sandpiper in 2014 - Gloucestershire
Brown Booby in 2019 in - Cornwall
Steppe Grey Shrike in 2022 - S. Gloucestershire
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August 29th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our first and to date only record of Steppe Grey Shrike - a moulting adult female found by @markcoller.bsky.social on Chipping Sodbury Common in 2022.
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August 27th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
A fortuitous 'lifer' on this day in 1996 - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Foryd Bay, Gwynedd
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August 26th:
I know it's a release/ reintroduction, I know its not 'tickable' but what a magnificent creature... White-tailed Eagle performing very nicely at CVLake, Somerset today.
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August 25th:
A very pleasant trundle across the water to Peterstone Wentlooge in Gwent for the juvenile Marsh Sandpiper.... Mae yna hyfryd... 😍
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August 23rd: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Red-footed Booby - Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Isles of Scilly in 2023.
That'll do nicely...
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August 22nd: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin in 2021 - Coverack, The Lizard, Cornwall. 😊
August 21st: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
American Yellow Warbler in Culverwell, Portland, Doset in 2017. 😊
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August 21st:
A Black-winged Kite, what a delight! ☺️
Seen this morning from the 'Shepherd's Hut', Summer Walkway at Slimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire.
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Photo courtesy of Jem Babbington, many thanks! 👍🏻
August 20th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
A twitchers tale... with @bexbirder.bsky.social
'Lost in deepest darkest Dorset and the milkmaid'
Red-rumped Swallow in 1988 in Corfe Mullen, Dorset
Plus a very confiding Long-billed Dowitcher in 2021 on Newport Wetlands, Gwent
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August 20th: S. Glos Statistics 📊
Our first record of Broad-billed Sandpiper!
An adult in worn summer plumage was present at Oldbury Power Station from August 20th - 22nd 1983.
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Apologies, I can't recall who took this shot but many thanks! 👍🏻
Photo courtesy of @Severnsidebirds, many thanks. 👍🏻
August 18th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
A spanking day for 'rares'...
Audouin's Gull in 2008 at Chapel St. Leonard, Lincs
Red-necked Phalarope in 2014 on Pilning Wetlands, S. Glos
Black Stork and Pacific Golden Plover 2021 at Frampton Marshes, Lincs.
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This photo courtesy of Toby Carter, many thanks! 👍🏻
August 16th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Thirty-one years ago today; My first UK Little Bittern - Botaurus minutus, a male, showed brilliantly on Fleet Pond, Hampshire.
'They' say size matters, and it does... these are tiny!
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Tibetan Sand Plover at Rimac, Lincolnshire in May 2002 - © Mike Malpass. Many thanks! 👍🏻
August 15th: From the archives - on this day! 🦉
Two belters from the 90's.
Lesser Grey Shrike in 1995 at St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Kent
Tibetan Sand Plover in 1997 in Pagham Harbour, W. Sussex
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