3/11/12 sightings at Sand Point highlight HOOPOE

Sightings included the HOOPOE which has been around for about a week.Because Sand Point is next to the River Severn and the Bristol Channel there was several curlews and an Autumn flock of about 20 starlings which was getting scared by the curlew, at least 20 carrion crows, a lesser black backed gull and a female kestrel. In the bushes on the side by the dunes there was a flock of house sparrows which were churping next to the car park.

                                                                      Hoopoe