Tuesday 15 August 2017

15th August '17 Tuesday - Cuckoo, Med G

Fine, sunny, hot out of the wind.

A late Cuckoo, juv. Mediterranean Gull.
Still 4 Great White Egrets and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls at Chew.


Sparrowhawk over Nailsea (Richard Bedwell)
BRISTOL
no reports


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Shepperdine:
2 Little Egret, c.30 Ringed Plover, 3 ad. Sanderling, 50+ Dunlin, 1 Snipe.

Almondsbury:
Song Thrush - back in the garden again.

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Hobby, c.25 Lapwing, 150 Dunlin, Knot, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 70 Redshank. Snipe, 20 Turnstone, 1 (juv-1w) Mediterranean Gull1 Cuckoo, 3 Swift, 1 Kingfisher, 40 Sand Martin, 2 Meadow Pipit, 60 Pied Wagtail,  11 Yellow Wagtail, 4 Wheatear,  Sedge Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Chiffchaff, 20 Goldfinch, 40 Linnet.

Green Sandpiper at Pilning Wetland (John Martin)
Pilning wetland:
1 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 14 Gadwall, 2 juv. Garganey, 63 Black-tailed Godwit (27 juv), 4 Green Sandpiper.

Hawkesbury, Broad Hill:
1 Redstart.

Warmley:
4 Swift.


NORTH SOMERSET:

Pill:
(BOC walk) 20 Mallard, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 1-2 Sparrowhawk, 6 Redshank, 2-4 Common Sandpiper, 70+ BH Gull, 10+ Swallow, 6 House Martin, Chiffchaffs, Goldcrests, and the Robins are singing again after the summer lull.

Buzzard mobbed by Swallow over Nailsea (Richard Bedwell)



Portishead:
Still 5 Swift over the High Street.



Nailsea:
Sparrowhawk, Buzzards (with attendant Swallows), Hobby.



Sand Point:
1 Tree Pipit, 1 Yellow Wagtail.





BELOW M4 & BANES

Little Owl at Marshfield (Pete Coslett)
Marshfield:
1 Little Owl.

RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
3 Little Egret, 1 adult Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper.

Hobby at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

Common Sandpiper at Chew (George Stacey)
Chew Valley Lake:
4 Great White Egret (one Denny Island, two along Moreton/Stratford shore, one Herriott's Pool), 7-9 Little Egret.

Bittern Trail (Hollow Brook):2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker

Woodford:
1 Common Sandpiper, 3 G BB Gull, 2 Swift, 1 Kingfisher, 30+ hirundines, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Mistle Thrush.

Sparrowhawk at Herons Green (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
16 Little Grebe, 50+ Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Hobby, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Barn Owl, 1 Green Woodpecker, 20+ Swallow, 12+ martins sp., 1 Reed Bunting.

Moreton:
100+ Cormorant (fishing flock), 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 G BB Gull, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 6+ LTTit, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Reed Bunting.

Villice Bay:
4 Common Sandpiper.

Herriott's End:
1 Shelduck, 5 Lapwing, 1 Redshank, 3 Greenshank, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 G BB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler.

Reports: Richard Bedwell, Vera Carpenter, Peter Coslett, Andy Davis, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, John Martin, David Newton, Vic Polley, Ian Stapp, blagdonlakebirds,  CVRSnslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds