Sunday 5 August 2018

05-08-18 Sunday - Cuckoo

Temp 16 to 29℃. Still even hotter today, very sunny

5-8-18 Kingfisher on River Avon (Gill Sapsed)
Great White Egret
Red Kite, Marsh Harrier
Yellow-legged Gull
Cuckoo
Pied Flycatcher
Wheatear


BRISTOL

Crews Hole, BS4:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Kingfisher

Hanham:
0 Swift, 2 Raven

Brislington:
1 Tawny Owl

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Littleton Wharf:
Wheatear

Severnside:
1 juv Cuckoo
5-8-18 House Martins in Tormarton (Peter Coslett)
Tormarton:
2 Swifts, 20 House Martins doing well, a few Swallows

NORTH SOMERSET

5-8-18 juv Pied Flycatcher in garden, Portishead (David Howes)
Portishead, nr Battery point:
1juv Pied Flycatcher, 7 Long-tailed Tit (Kilkenny Place)

Backwell Lake:
16 Canada Goose (including 12 large Goslings), 8 Mute Swan including 4 cygnets, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Common Buzzard, 6 Moorhen including 3 juveniles, Coot, 8 Black-headed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Kingfisher.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Little Owl - as the sun went down.

Newton St Loe:
4 Grey Heron, 1 Red Kite 10.15, 2 Buzzard, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Great Spotted & 2 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 5 Coal Tit, 20 Swallow, 30 House Martin, 1 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 f Blackcap, 8 Goldcrest, 12 Wren, 4 Nuthatch

5-8-18 juv Spotted Flycatcher in Lords Woods (Chris Perry)
Pensford, Lords Wood:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Green + 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Coal Tit, 12 Swallow, 7 Long-tailed Tit, 10+ Goldcrest, 1 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 6 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 juv Chaffinch, 3 Bullfinch

Paulton:
1 Whitethroat, 1 Pied Flycatcher (juv or female), 1 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 2 Linnet (juv), 1 Yellowhammer (female carrying food)

RESERVOIRS

5-8-18 juv Little Ringed Plover, Woodford (David Hughes)
Chew Valley Lake:
Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 juv Marsh Harrier (Stratford), 18 Lapwing, 2 juv Little Ringed Plover, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Raven

Chew Valley Ringing Station:
107 Reed Warblers ringed since Thursday

Out of Avon:
Purple Heron still at Shapwick

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Teresa Chard, Peter Coslett, Anne Crowe, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Lee Gardiner, Patrick Hancock, Robert Hargreaves, David Howes, David Hughes, Rob Laughton, Robin Martin, Andrew Mears, Chris Perry, Dee Pope, Gill Sapsed, CVRS