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    Somerset Birding

    I have a leser spotted woodpecker in my back garden! (Portishead BS20, North Somerset, up around the top of the hill). We have some very large mature trees, oak, ash etc.....and I have feeders on them. The woodpecker really likes my nut-feeder. I've had a green woodpecker before, and a greater...
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    REPLY TO OBM ABOVE: HELP no longer needed with White Egret ID Somerset levels please. Looking NORTH on Shapwick Heath 100 metres east of the footbridge, about 200 metres west of the car park where you could walk east to Ham Wall, a large white Grey Heron shaped Egret. Larger than a Little...
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    Somerset Birding

    This morning 2 purple Sandpipers at Battery Point Portishead, on the rocks by the lighthouse at high tide. This is the first time I have seen this sepcies, they are lovely birds
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    Re the above....Sorry, I've just been advised to check, and actually it wasn't a mandarin but a Drake Wood Duck. Stil, Ive never seen one of them wild in the UK either.
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    What could these gulls be? I'm not good at identifying gulls, even with the aid of the RSPB website: At Nailsea Reserve today were a few Little Gulls. Also some very similar size, similar-looking gulls, also with the classic wintertime black "ear-patch" of the Little Gull.....However, whilst the...
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    Anyone seen any sign of waxwings in the Bristol or North Somerset area this winter?
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    Thanks for the above, I'd gone at low-tide, I didn't realise that high tide is the best time. Are they a particularly shy bird?
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    There were some sightings of purple sandpipers at Battery Point Portishead by 'clevedon birder' on his/her blog recently....Went to have a look today and unfortunately didn't see any. However, I saw a rock-pippit which is actually a first for me. I'd be really interested if anyone sees either...
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    Somerset Birding

    Dear All I'm very sorry, my brain must have been taking a holiday yesterday during relaxing afternoon's birdwatching. The ducks at Catcott Heath were of course as you say Pintails. Sorry. I'll print a corrrection in the thread. Long tailed duck and goldeneye remain ellusive members of my wish-list!
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    Birtle hide at Catcott Heath reserve today; teal, wigeon, long-tailed duck....and some young bar-tailed godwits! Never seen them before. Also a huge number of lapwings in the fields just south of the hide. At shapwick heath from Noah's hide saw 4 Bewicks swans...Not just my identification...
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    OTTERS NEAR PORTBURY? Met a wildlife photographer's assistant on the reserve.....He'd been sent to look for otters apparently seen in the Portbury dock itself, near the Port POlice Post.....In case anyone's interested. On that note, does anyone know if there are fish in any of those freshwater...
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    Thanks, in that case I'll take your advice. By the way I went to Portbury reserve again yesterday. There was a substantial flock of wigeon out on the estuary, nearer to the Portbury dock area. I had to go onto the saltmarsh and use the spotter scope to identify them as they were at extreme...
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    Somerset Birding

    Hard to say, the wings were sickle shaped and curved right backwards. Also, long narrow tail. By the way, why not a hobby? Wrong time of year?
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    I went to Portbury nature reserve yesterday (Friday) on the mountain bike. Most impresive place. I counted 82 lapwings on the pool near the saltmarsh. Also a Pochard. There is a juvenile little grebe on the pool near the Wharf Lane hide too. Main bird of interest was a raptor that flew...
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    i keep hearing that barn owls are no longer to be found around portishead....well the owls don't seem to have been reading the book, i work shifts and when i'm cycling home at some ungodly hour of the morning i've seen one or two. also between abbotts leigh and pill on the 369. speaking of...
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    Somerset Birding

    Has anyone been to that newish reserve near Portbury dock of late? What's there? I've read thatfieldfares are common thsi time of year, and that there was a little owl spotted there too. Andy
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    You might be right about Redshanks actually....At the range I was I couldn't make out the leg or bill colours even with my spotter scope. (I know curlews, dunlins and oysetrcatchers, it wasn't them.) Is it the wrong time of year for green sandpipers, or is it more a case of their not liking...
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    Somerset Birding

    Went to have a look at the mudflats in Portishead today. Saw some long-legged but rather short-billed waders i can't be sure about...I think they were some kind of sandpiper due to white underparts. Straight, and much shorter bills than godwits. According to my book, the most likely species...
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    During the very cold weather over Christmas I've naurally been putting out a lot of food. Now that it's warmed up a bit, I've seen a few nice sights just in the back garden where we have a lot of mature trees; A green woodpecker probing the lawn, a flock of long-tailed tits yesterday, and the...
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    Somerset Birding

    Hi I noticed that your forum name is Hauki, I wondered if you are from an English/Finnish family like I am? Andy
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    Somerset Birding

    Hello I just looked at your blog, it's really good. I was es[pecially interested in the waxwings at Avonmouth, do you know if there are still any around? They are one of ny favourite birds and I've only ever seen 1 before. Andy
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    Somerset Birding

    Good idea Shoshone, I live in Somerset too. It would be good to share sightings news. I've been too busy to do any birding of late, but I can tell you that where I live (Portishead), the shores of the Bristol channel are quite muddy, and you always get winter waders here. Curlews and...
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