Great White Egrets
Yellow-legged Gull
Purple Heron still on the Levels
Red Kite, Redstart
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| Common Gulls are starting to return from their breeding grounds (Ian Stapp) |
Redland:
6 Swift
Montpelier Station:
1 Wren - 'Sunning'
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| Wren 'sunning' 24th July 2018 Montpelier Station (Des Bowring - wildmonty) |
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Hawkesbury - Broad Hill:
1 Red Kite, 1 Redstart.
New Passage/Northwick Warth:
(yesterday, 23rd) 1 Ruff, 45 Black-tailed Godwit, 120+ Redshank, 300+ Dunlin, 90+ Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 27 Shelduck, 31 Canada Geese.
(yesterday, 23rd) 1 Ruff, 45 Black-tailed Godwit, 120+ Redshank, 300+ Dunlin, 90+ Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 27 Shelduck, 31 Canada Geese.
Pilning Wetland:
4 Little Grebe, 1 Snipe, 1 Kestrel, 1 hunting Hobby.
NORTH SOMERSET
Portishead:
(Marina) 2 Cormorant.
Walton Common and North Clevedon coast (BOC walk):
1 Pheasant, 1 Buzzard, 6 Black-headed Gull (inc. 1 juv.), 8 Herring Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 10 Woodpigeon, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6 Magpie, 7 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 7 Blue Tit (3 juv,), 2 Great Tit, 19 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 4 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 4 House Sparrow, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 6 Linnet (one flock), 17 Goldfinch (one group of 7).
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| Little Owl at Marshfield (Pete Coslett) |
Marshfield:
(Northfield Lane only)
1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Pheasant, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Little Owl (West Littleton Road), 20 Skylark, 40 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 15 House Sparrow, 20 Corn Bunting, 10 Yellowhammer, 10 Linnet, 15 Starling, various corvids.
Twerton, Bath:
Hunstrete:
2 Buzzard, 2 Raven cronking, Green Woodpecker calling.
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| Reed Warbler at Moreton (Ian Stapp) |
Blagdon Lake:
(yesterday, 23rd) 1 Mandarin Duck, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 46 Lapwing.
Litton Reservoir:
Kingfisher.
Chew Valley Lake
223 Canada Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 54 + Mute Swan, 1 escaped Black Swan, 4 Shelduckling, 2 Shoveler, 20+ Gadwall, 67 Teal, 87 Great Crested Grebe, 69 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 7 Buzzard, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 18 Lapwing, 2 Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 37 juv. BH Gull, 8 GBB Gull, 7 Stock Dove, 14 Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 23 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 1 Jay, 9 LT Tit, 3 House Martin, 12 Swallow, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 11 Reed Warbler (most chicks calling), 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Treecreeper, 1 Grey Wagtail, 17 Chaffinch, 6 Reed Bunting.
1 Oystercatcher.
Heron's Green:
Tufted Duck + 7 ducklings, 2 Little Grebe (with 4 chicks), 1 Common Gull, 21 House Sparrow.
Moreton:
1 Kingfisher.
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| An albino Coot - I think not last year's bird? (Ian Stapp) |
Tufted Duck + 3 ducklings, a "Pied Coot" aberrant,
Reports: Nancy Barrett, Des Bowring, Karle Burford, Judy Copeland, Peter Coslett, Anne Crowe, Robert Hargreaves, Vic Polley, Ian Stapp, BUPP, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG wildmonty
