24-05-18 Thursday - Blue-headed Wagtail

End of the warm spell: muggy and overcast with light rain intermittently. Late migrants in evidence on the coast and elsewhere.

Red Kite
Little Ringed Plover, Sanderling
Yellow-legged Gull
Black Tern
Cuckoo
Yellow Wagtail ( inc Blue-headed Wagtail), White Wagtail 
Tree Pipit

24-05-18, Blue-headed Wagtail or intergrade, Pilning Wetland (Paul Bowerman)

BRISTOL

24-05-18 Greenfinch, Henleaze (Geoff Daniels )

Henleaze:
1 pr Greenfinch

Totterdown:
1 Red Kite (4.00pm)

Windmill Hill:
1 Reed Warbler (singing in thick scrub at the bottom of Cotswold Road North)

Dundridge Park, Hanham:
1 Red Kite (mid-day)


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
22+ Stock Dove, Cuckoo, Tawny Owl, 50 Swift

New Passage/Northwick:
1 m Teal,1 Gadwall, Mallard brood, Coot brood, 2 Whimbrel, 4 BH Gull, 110+ Swift ( steady stream), 50+ House Martin, 1 Tree Pipit NE

Pilning Wetland:

24-05-18 flava Wagtail Pilning Wetland (all photos Paul Bowerman)

1 flava Wagtail which seems possibly to be an intergrade between Blue-headed and Grey-headed; looks similar to Blue-headed but has dark lores, some spotting on chest and quite dark ear coverts. Today's dull light unhelpful in judging these fine points.

Also present 9 Little Ringed Plover

24-05-18 Ringed Plover, Severn Beach (Ian Loats)

24-05-18 Grey Plover, Severn Beach (Ian Loats)

24-05-18 Sanderling, Severn Beach (Aravind Ramesh)

Severn Beach:
1 Grey Plover, 76 Ringed Plover, 4+ Sanderling, c 30 Dunlin, 2 Black Tern (heading upriver), Swallow (heading upriver), 1 Yellow Wagtail 

Wildplace Project:
1 Red Kite (4.00 pm), 1 Hobby pursuing Swallows


NORTH SOMERSET

Backwell Lake:
Breeding successes - 2 pr Canada Goose with goslings, 2 prs Mute Swan with 3 + 5 cygnets + four further birds on nests.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Newton St Loe:

25 Swift,only 10 Barn Swallow, 20 House Martin, 2 Blackcap, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Song Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher (first of year), 2 Greenfinch, 2 Yellowhammer 

23-05-18 Grass Snake, Newton St Loe (NSLBirding)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney tanks:
100+ Swift, 2 White Wagtail

Chew Valley Lake:
4 Shelduck, Mallard (+brood), 2 Great Crested Grebe, Coot (+ brood), 1 Red Kite,  3rd CY Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Tern,1 Black Tern, 20 Swift,  3 Hobby (2 ads, 1 2cyr-  adult pair hunted Swifts, catching one), 2 Sand Martin, 3 Pied Wagtail

24-05-18 Mallard brood and Coot chicks, CVL (TalkingtoBears)

Reports:Rich Andrews,Phil Baber, Paul Bowerman, Geoff Daniels, Peter Hazelwood,Aravind Ramesh, Ann Rossiter, Richard Scantlebury, Chris Stone,  TalkingtoBears, Rod Taylor,  blagdonlakebirds, CVRS,   nslbirding, opsbirding,   severnsidebirds,  TBOSG