Brean Down sightings for 2002
5th January
1 female Common Scoter
1 female Goldeneye
2 female Black Redstart
50 Golden Plover
1 Coal Tit
6th January
1 Goose (pos Brent)
1 female Goosander
3 Black Redstart (1 male)
1 Yellow Legged Gull
16th March
3 Wheatear
7 Chiffchaff
1 Brambling
23rd March
24 Sand Martin
1 Swallow
3 Wheatear
9 Chiffchaff
1 Blackcap
1 male Black Redstart
24th March
1 Willow Warbler
2 Bullfinch
4 Coal Tit
29th March
1 Swallow
14 Wheatear
2 Willow Warbler
6th April
1 male Pied Flycatcher
1 Wheatear
13th April
1 Grasshopper Warbler
4 Swallow
14th April
2 Tree Pipit
25th April
1 Swift
2 Grasshopper Warbler
1 Sedge Warbler
2 Tree Pipit
27th April
1 Fulmar
28th April
1 Pomarine Skua
2 Fulmar
1 Grasshopper Warbler
14th May
120 Swallow
36 house Martin
17 Swift
5 Sand Martin
1 Wheatear
1 Fulmar
21st May
2 Goshawk
23rd May
1 Spotted Flycatcher
1st June
5 Spostted Flycatcher
5 Sandwich Tern
1 Redpol
2nd June
1 Greenish Warbler - First heard singing around 08:30 and also seen
well. Heard again at mid day also by myself and two other observers (1st for
Somerset)
(Unfortunately this bird has not been accepted by the BBRC - 24/12/2002)
3 Rose Coloured Starling
3 Spotted Flycatcher
4th June
1 Hobby
8th June
1 Sandwich Tern
1 Common Sandpiper
2 juv Peregrine
18th August
17 Crossbills flew West at 07:45 past Trig Point
3 Tree Pipits
2 Juv Wheatear
2nd September
3 Wheatear
1 Chukar
1 Fulmar
1 Yellow Wagtail
3rd September
2 Whimbrel
2 Sand Martin
1 Wheatear
4th September
9 Wheatear
1 Tree Pipit
2 Sand Martin
5th September
2 Crossbill (2 crossbills landed in large hawthorn clump adjacent top track
c.40 yards before trig point appearing to roost and were calling occasionaly
from inside the
clump at 19:35
5-7 Wheatear
24th September
10 Song Thrush
7 Chiffchaff
6 Blackcap
100 House Martin
80 Swallow
40 Meadow Pipit
30th September
1 Dartford Warbler - juvenile on top of down 100yds east of trig point.
4th October
1 Ring Ouzel
(2 Ring Ouzel)
(1 Firecrest)
14th October
30 Swallow
8 Chiffchaff
6 House Martin
1+ Blackcap
2 Wheatear
18th October
1 hirundine (pos sand martin)
1 wheatear
7 redpol
1 siskin
1 fieldfare
1 redwing
7 goldcrest
2 blackbirds over
19th October
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
1 juv Dartford Warbler
1 Redwing
1 Fieldfare
3 Brambling
8 Swallow
1 Blackcap
4 Skylark
3 Reed Bunting
4 Siskin
21st October
(1 Swift seen by 2 Bristol birders)
1 Short Eared Owl flew off down and circled over sea between the down and birnbeck
pier before drifting back south past the end of the down
1 Merlin
39 Swallow
2 Wheatear
4 Blackcap
1 Bullfinch
24th October
1x snow bunting flew towards flat holm at 11:54
1x firecrest at farm
1x house martin
3x swallow
1x bullfinch
1x mistle thrush
1x short eared owl flushed from path & flew towards trig point
2x blackcap nr farm
25th October
1 large pipit sp seen at 8:11 and again at 8:45. prob richards
1 merlin chasing starlings nr trig point
7 siskin
200+ starling flew out towards cardiff
very little other migration today.
28th October
1 bullfinch
2 redwing
siskin
redpol
29th October
1 twite east over brean down towards river axe 8:10
1 twite with c.40 linnets in small field next to brean beach entrance 8:40
1 merlin over down
1 dartford warbler on down
30th October
20 Song Thrush
1 Merlin
(1 Twite at Brean beach entrance)
1st November
2 Grey Wagtail
400+ Starling south
100 Woodpigeon south east
19 Fieldfare south
2+ Redwing
2 Mistle Thrush
150+ Chaffinch south
1 Bullfinch
4 Reed Bunting
2 Redpol
2 Siskin
2nd November
1150 Chaffinch East
800 Starling East
8 Siskin
6 Redpol
2 Brambling
1 female Black Redstart at Fort
1 female Bullfinch
4 Fieldfare
5th November
1 male Black Redstart at Fort
11th November
1000+ Starling lingering around the down
13th November
1 woodlark east at 06:55
2,500 starling - most flew west and lost to view at sea between steep holm and
flat holm
1 female black redstart on roof of brean down farm
1 siskin
1 redpol
5 redwing
1 fieldfare
28 woodpigeon west
15th November
2 Chiffchaff
70 Woodpigeon
14th December
1 male Black Redstart around beach car park
(1 Jack Snipe in Axe Est marsh)
17th December
2 female Black Redstart at fort
21st December
1 female Black Redstart at beach car park
1 Short Eared Owl in rhynes nr River Axe
1 female Bullfinch on down
1 Merlin flying along River Axe towards Brean Down
2 Kestrels
24th December
1 female Black Redstart around beach car park and adjacent caravan site
2 Buzzards along river Axe
1 female Bullfinch calling from bushes near Brean Down Farm
28th December
2 Black Redstarts - 1 around beach car park and one at fort. Both are females
4 Bullfinch