Autumn is arriving early.

Autumn is arriving early and September is traditionally the month for real rare birds for Britain. Where I live, the Autumn migrants I was reporting have already started arriving. For example, a BRAMBLING has already been sighted in Northwick Warth (near Severnbeach  Glocestershire.) This is the old county of Avon's earliest ever record as these birds usually arrive in October. Also other signs of Autumn is of a JACK SNIPE sighted already for one evening at Coombe hill meadows Glos. These are great to see and I hope on Saturday there's something down at Berkeley Power Station where there's a 10m high tide which should push something exciting up the River Severn as a GREY PHALAROPE was sighted on the 18th at New Passage (Glos.) For more sightings there are some amazing sightings for the Old Avon area http://avonbirding.blogspot.co.uk/ and the Gloster birder website which keeps you up to date with the sightings in Gloucestershire http://www.birder.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ . Also an amazing website for bird sightings in the Severnside area is http://www.severnsidebirds.co.uk/.

In the area where I live the first COAL TIT of the year arrived on the 18/9/13  but sadly I didn't hear it on the 19/9/13 but amazingly on the 19/9/13 there has been 30+ common gulls with a smart Adult MEDITERRANEAN GULL but unfortunately I didn't have my camera to get a good shot.
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My recent sightings from the garden are

Flying over

• 10+ feral pigeons
• 2 lesser black backed gulls
• 10+ jackdaws

Trees

• 1 house sparrow
• 1 goldfinch