Weston Early Years

1979

Red-breasted Merganser Axe 1 20/1/1979

Hen Harrier Axe 1 Jan 1979

Sandwich Tern Axe 8 25/8/1979, 3 29/9/1979

Woodlark Axe 2 13/10/1979

Dotterel Middle Hope 1 24-26/8/1979

Long-eared Owl Sand Point 1 27/10/1979

Melodious Warbler Sand Bay 1 in garden 29/9/1979

1978

Scaup Axe 7 26/11/1978

Shag Axe 1 14/1/1978

Scaup Axe 7 20/1/1978

Hen Harrier Axe 1 6/5/1978

Avocet Axe 1 30/12/1978

Serin Worlebury Hill Aug 1978

Lapland Bunting Axe 1 18/11/1978

1977

Shag Sand Point 1 16/11/1977

Squacco Heron Hutton Ponds 1/6/1977

Eider Sand Point 3 4/1/1977, 1 14/4/1977, 1 28/5/1977

Twite Weston Beach 30 29/1/1977, 21-27 until March

1976

Shag Sand Point 1 23/5/1976

Eider Sand Point 3 Mar - Nov. Weston Bay 6 May (inc Sand Point birds)

Hen Harrier Axe 1 31/1//1976

Kentish Plover Axe 1 9/10/1976

Iceland Gull Axe 1 1/5/1976

Little Tern Sand Point 1 22/5/1976, 1 2/10/1976. Axe 1 2/10/1976

Woodlark Middle Hope 1 29/7/1976

Cirl Bunting Bleadon pair 13/3/1976

1975

Shag Weston Bay 2 28/9/1975

Avocet Sand Bay 2 25/10/1975, 1 26/11/1975

Woodlark Sand Point 2 17/9

Cirl Bunting pair at Bleadon and Worlebury 1975

Scaup Axe 1 11/11/1975

Bearded Tit 2 east 26/10/1975

1974

Guillemot Sand Point 1 6/6/1974, 1 29/12/1974

Woodlark Sand Bay 1 5/5/1974

Cirl Bunting Pairs at Bleadon and Worlebury Golf Course 1974

Twite Sand Bay 6 22/11/1974

1973

Red-breated Merganser Sand Point 2 22/11/1973

Razorbill Sand Point 1 13/5/1973

Guillemot Sand Point 1 3/6/1973

Hoopoe Sand Bay 1 16/5/1973

Woodlark Sand Point 2 2/8/1973, 14/10/1973, 1 4/11/1973, 2 6/11/1973

Cirl Bunting Sand Point 1 Feb 1973, 1 Sep 1973, 2 Worlebury 1973, up to 3 Bleadon 1973

Corn Bunting Sand Bay 1 7/10/1973

1972

Storm Petrel Sand Point 5 30/5/1972

Shag Sand Point 1 5/5/1972

Eider Sand Point 20 jan 1972, feb 1972, then moved to brean

Velvet Scoter 4 in flight 27/12/1972

Hen Harrier Sand Point 1 4/11/1972

Puffin Sand Point 1 8/4/1972

Red-backed Shrike Sand Bay 1 9/5/1972

Cirl Bunting pair Bleadon and Worlebury 1972

Corn Bunting 1 28/10/1972

Bearded Tit Sand Point 10 east 15/10/1972

1971

Shag Sand Point 1 12/8

Eider Sand Point 2 16-17/10, 3 26/10, - 20/11, 4 21-28/11, 15 5/12, 17 12-24/12, 19 26-28/12, 18 30/12

Common Scoter Sand Point 2 7/10, 1 20/10

Hen Harrier Sand Bay 1 4/3

Razorbill Steep Holm 1 26/9

Guillemot Steep Holm 1 26/9

Woodlark Middle Hope 1 3 8/9

Great Grey Shrike Sand Bay Farm 1 27/10

Aquatic Warbler Sand Bay 1 in spartina 15/9, 2 16/9, 1 17-20/9

Cirl Bunting Worlebury 3 singing males

Lapland Bunting Sand Point 1 5/10

Twite Sand Bay 6 10/11

1970

Storm Petrel Sand Point 3 10/9

Shag Sand Point 1 10/9

Cirl Bunting Bleadon 4 (2 males)

1969

Greylag Sand Bay 2 9/2, 1 27/4

Osprey Axe 1 1/9

Hen Harrier Sand Bay 1 19/12

Avocet Sand Bay 5 8/4

Wryneck Sand Bay 1 5/9, 16/9

Alpine Swift Sand Point 1 17/9/1969

Woodlark Sand Point 1 23/9, 2 5/10

Velvet Scoter Sand Point 1 27/10/1969

Red-headed Bunting Sand Point 1 nr point 25/5/1969

1968

Shag Sand Point 1 16/8

Little Egret Axe 28/8

Stone Curlew Weston Airfield 1 11/9

Guillemot Sand Point 1 10/9

Marsh Harrier Worlebury 1 6/10, 7/10

Montagu's Harrier Sand Point 1 31/5/1968

Goshawk Sand Point 1 3/9/1968

Woodlark Sand Point 2 22/2

1967

Storm Petrel Knightsone Pier 1 4/9

Shag Sand Point 2 9/9

Common Scoter Sand Point 1 19/11, 9 nov-dec

Little Tern Sand Bay 2 3/9

Alpine Swift Steem Holm 1 30/9

Bee-eater Sand Point 1 heard 21/5/1967

Wryneck Sand Point 1 1/10

Woodlark Sand Point 3 2/8

Melodious Warbler Steep Holm 1 28/8

Twite
Beach Lawns 9 12-15/2
Sand Bay 5 23/2

1966

White-fronted Goose
Sand Point 14 9/1
Weston 3 15/1, 29 NE 18/1, 1 28/10, 29/10

Eider
Sand Point 2 27/7-18/9
Axe 6 feb-may, 1 12/11

Long-tailed Duck 1 23/1

Avocet Sand Bay 1 29-30/12

Woodlark Sand Point 3 1/11

Red-backed Shrike Sand Bay 1 11/9

1965

Little Egret Axe 1 22nd May 1965

White-fronted Goose Sand Point 14 N 9/1

Bewicks Swan
Sand Bay 6 3/1
Weston Bay 11 23/1

Hoopoe Sand Point 1 23/5, 24/5, 1 14-17/8

Arctic Warbler Sand Point 1 17/8/1965

Lapland Bunting Sand Point 1 24/10

1964

Long-tailed Duck Marine Lake 1 jan-21/3

Shorelark Sand Point 1 18/10

1963

Long-tailed Duck 1 21-28/12

Roseate Tern Weston Bay 29/6/1963

Common Scoter Weston Bay 3 27/4, 9/11, 2 1/12

Eider Sand Bay 1 2/8

Bee-eater Weston Woods 3 in from north for 10mins and then flew east 23/4/1963

Barnacle Goose Sand Bay 4 2nd January 1963

1962

Sooty Shearwater Sand Point 1 17/9/1962

Corncrake Sand Point 1 heard calling 13/5

Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Weston Wood 1 no date

1961

Melodious Warbler Steep Holm 1 trapped 27/9/1961

1960

Red-backed Shrike Kewstoke 1 male 13/5-18/6 (1 male also present in same area 1959).

Corn Bunting Sand Bay 1 jan, 1 21/4/1960

 

Early Years

Dotterel Sand Point 2 5/9/1958

Sabines Gull Birnbeck 1 adult photographed 12/8/1954

Black Guillemot Sand Point 4 off end of point 7/2/1954

Little Auk Sand Point 1 11/2/1950

Scaup Used to be a common bird around Brean and Weston with counts of 700 31st December 1903 and 200 Weston Bay 15th January 1908

Long-tailed Duck records from Weston to Brean: 16/12/1890, 5-6/11/1956, 22/1/1957

Black Guillemot Weston Bay 1 shot 3/12/1896 (Now in American Museum of Natural History, New York)

Bridled Tern Sand Bay 1 dead 17/10/1958

Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Sand Bay 1 10/8/1958

Lesser-spotted Woodpecker Sand Point 1 3/10/1957

Marsh Tit Sand Point 3 21/9/1957

Hawfinch Sand Point 1 11/7/1956

Corn Bunting Sand Point 1 10/5/1949

White-tailed Eagle Middle Hope 1 181/12/1927

Little Bittern 1 Banwell 20/5/1912

Pallas's Sandgrouse Weston area 1888 invasion

Glaucous Gull Weston Jan 1870

Dotterel Sand Bay 1 may 1869

Little Bittern Bleadon 1 mid October 1864

Bittern Fairly common around Weston in 1860's

Bailons Crake 2 between 1830 and 1912