Sightings

Main sighting: House martins

80 house martins, 10 swallows, a grey wagtail, 2 goldfinches, 2 mute swans with 7 cygnets

Main sighting: Citrine wagtail

After a 2 hour wait in the rain, the citrine wagtail appeared from the reeds to the right of snipe platform. Also, two yellow wagtail (and a couple of pieds), single ruff, two snipe, two very vocal green sandpiper, adult and juvenile kestrel.

Main sighting: Citrine

Bird showed exceptionally well this morning at one stage alongside a Pied Wagtail. It is noticeably smaller and slimmer than Pied when next to one. Ruff showing very well there too with Marsh Harrier, 3 Little Ringed Plover and at least 3 Whinchat elsewhere around the lagoons

Main sighting: Reeves pheasant

Male Reeves pheasant,Just over the county boundary, on the Gloucestershire Way at SO567997.

Main sighting: Citrine Wagtail

For those interested in trying to see the wagtail it showed well a few times this morning/early afternoon. It feeds mostly at the base of the vegetation around the edge of the lagoon and can be in amongst the vegetation and out of sight for long periods. Every so often it wanders into view. It can show well out in the open on the mud. It is most usually seen to the right of the Snipe viewing platform. It does get right in front of that platform and has been seen from Marsh Platform looking back to Snipe. It is worth the effort and a nice variety of other species were on view on Priors Lagoon as well.

Main sighting: Whinchat

4 Whinchat with 6 Stonechat 1st hide. Yellow Wagtail 1 Pied Wagtail 3 White Wagtail 1 (Citrine Wagtail also seen today, but not by us) Ruff 1 Snipe 1 Great White Egret 1 Little Egret 6 Grey Heron 2 Green Woodpecker 1 Chiffchaff 8 Great Tit Blue Tit Long-tailed Tit Swallow House Martin Kestrel 2 Sparrowhawk 1. On the foreshore Shelduck 60 Curlew 10 Oystercatcher 8 Black-headed Gull 150 and lots of Gadwall on Priors.

Main sighting: Whinchat

No sign of the citrine wagtail at Goldcliff lagoons between 7 and 9. A couple of juvenile pieds, showing obvious ‘bibs’ and two adult yellow wagtail from Snipe platform. A few Black-tailed godwit, single ruff, two green sandpiper and 7 or so little egret. Single kestrel and, from first hide, a whinchat. Very good numbers of sand martin.

Main sighting: Citrine Wagtail

0545 – 1000hrs visit, 56 species noted, highlights included 3 kestrels (1 juv), pheasant, 4 chiffcahffs (contact calls), 3 stock doves and 1 buzzard. Redshank platform saw 70 roosting lapwing, and a pair of barn owls were quartering the lagoons at 0601hrs (1 flew off towards the seawall tearooms direction). Snipe platform had all the activity with 9 little egrets, 3 herons, 3 snipe, cettis calling, green woodpecker calling, 28 gadwall, another 110 lapwing, 1 ruff, 1 little stint, 1 green sandpiper, 17 black-tailed godwits, 1 dunlin, 278 sand martins passing through (aerial feeding), pair of little grebes, 2 yellow wagtails, 17 redshank, juv male stonechat, 5 ringed plover, 6 teal, linnets, and the citrine wagtail feeding along the edge of the reeds on the right hand side of the lagoon (0900hrs). 100+ swallows aerial feeding in the field with the hay bales. Seawall – pair of wheatears, 223 shelduck on the saltings with 29 oystercatchers, 22 curlew, 32 dunlin and a juv male peregrine perched on the usual log. Marsh platform – single reed and sedge warblers and shoveler.

Main sighting: Citrine Wagtail

A fine juvenile Citrine wagtail associating with Yellow, Pied and White wagtails at approx 16:20 this afternoon, I picked this bird up on call before eventually pinning it down on the deck. A lovely juvenile Little stint also around, along with Great egret, Ruff, 2 Greenshank, and Black tailed godwits. Decent movement of hirrundines in the rain too. Pics + video on my twitter.

Main sighting: Young Buzzard

Young grounded buzzard not quite fledged but unable to get off ground. Dog walkers need to take care. Sand martins over.

Main sighting: OSPREY

Another Osprey spotted by my Wife (Hannah) travelling South over South Fields at height

Main sighting: Osprey

Large adult osprey at altitude heading SSE high over garden at 1600 this afternoon .