Sunday 19 August 2018

19-08-18 Sunday - Grey Plover

Temp 17 to 22℃. Just a dull day again

Great White Egret
Red Kite
Grey Plover
Yellow-legged Gull
Swift
Hobby
Yellow Wagtail
Redstart 

19-8-18 Hobby at Villice (Bob Brewer)
Note the 'ailerons' on the trailing wing edges. Never seen this before, I knew they could twist the tail to turn but not the ailerons
BRISTOL

Withywood:
1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Blue Tit, 7 Long-tailed Tit

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station, 18th
1 juv Little Grebe, 25 Ringed Plover, 90 Dunlin (both Shepperdine), 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Hobby, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear

19-8-18 Black-tailed Godwit at New Passage (John Martin)
New Passage/Northwich Warth:
2 Mute Swan, 4 Gadwall, 30 Mallard, 15 Teal, 20 Little Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 3 Moorhen, 10 Coot, 2 Oystercatcher, 40 Lapwing, 1 Grey Plover, 50 Ringed Plover, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Portuguese colour-ringed and 1 Scottish OB-YB ads +11 juv in 234 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 30 Redshank, 100 BH Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 6 Collared Dove, 1 Swift, 1 f Kestrel, 10 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 70 Starling, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit, 40 Linnet, 15 Goldfinch

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Red Kite, 7 Raven, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Redstart

Bradley Stoke, Three Brooks Lake:
1 Little Egret

NORTH SOMERSET
19-8-18 Green Woodpecker in Hewish (Terri Borash)

Hewish garden:
1 Green Woodpecker, 74 House Sparrow

Worle, Plumley Park:
4 Snipe over

BELOW M4 & BANES

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
1 juv Little Ringed Plover, 6 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Blagdon Lake:
1 f Garganey (18th), 2 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 14 Ringed Plover, 1 juv Little Ringed Plover, 91 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 juv Ruff, 3 Dunlin, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank,1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 1 juv Peregrine

Chew Valley Lake, mostly Herriotts:
1 Shelduck, 1 Shoveler, 22 Little Grebe (HG), 2 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 2 juv Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard,  14 Lapwing, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 10 Green Sandpiper, 1 juv Greenshank, 2 Yellow-legged Gull25 Swift, 4 Hobby, 2 Peregrine, Swallows and House Martins

CVRS:
Ringed today - 1 Willow Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 7 Sedge Warbler, 39 Reed Warbler, 2 Blackcap
Recap - 1 ad m Bullfinch ringed Jan '17 and seen again Aug '17

Out of Avon - click one of the links Dawlish Warren 16th August by Bob Brewer
2 Spotted Flycatchers at Stockhill on Mendips (BD)

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Bob Brewer, Terri Borash, Derek Clarke, Mark Coller, Tony Cook, Neil Delaney, Barry Dursley, Peter Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne, Phil Quinn