Wednesday 11 October 2017

11th October '17 Wednesday - Crane

Average day, cloudy start, some sun in middle, rain late afternoon. Relatively mild

Common Crane
Merlin
Ring-necked Parakeet
Bar-tailed Godwit

BRISTOL

Bedminster, Windmill City Farm:
Ring-necked Parakeet calling

Southville, St Paul's Church:
Raven in residence

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

10-10-17 Cormorant at Three Brooks Reserve (Vic Savery)
NORTH SOMERSET

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Lower Weston:
@09.00: 3 Common Crane. Flying overhead towards Lansdown Racecourse two Cranes, one calling all the time. Then another call from a third bird some distance away flying in parallel. (See CVL + Blog 11/8/17)
@14.00: 1 Peregrine

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:
Totals:
18 Little Egret, 20 Great White Egret, 1 f/im Merlin (Stratford), 2 ad+j Peregrine, 1 Common Crane in from NE 10.40 flying around till out 11.00 NNE (see Bath + Blog 11/8/17), 19 Lapwing, 3 Ruff, 1 Black-tailed Godwit,1 Bar-tailed Godwit 2 Swallow, 2 m/f Stonechat

This section of the A368 will be closed from16th October for 3 weeks
Out of UK
Bob Brewer in Uganda

Reports: Rich Andrews, John Griffiths, blagdonlakebirds, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds