Sightings 13/8/16 - Great Skua

1 GREAT SKUA down Severn at Aust Warth, mid-day
3 juv Yellow-legged Gull at Chew Valley Lake
Gadwall, Pochard, Great Crested Grebe, Coot, getting into large numbers

13/8/16 Whitethroat (Teresa Chard)
Very distant photo

Bristol, Stockwood:
2 Whitethroat

Bristol, Stoke Park: 
1 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, House Martins drinking, 'Chiffy party'

Bristol, Warmley Forest Park/Overscourt:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Whitethroat,
2 Song Thrush, 4 Bullfinch,

Oldbury Power Station:

1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 juv Common Redstart, 1 Whinchat

Littleton Warth:
14 fly-by Canada Goose, 17 Mallard, 1 Grey Heron, 160+ BH Gull, 3 Wheatear, 60+ Linnet.

Littleton Brick Pits:
1 Hobby am

Aust Warth:
1 GREAT SKUA down mid-day. 1 Oystercatcher, 8 Curlew, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank,
1 Green Woodpecker, 20 Starling, 8 Linnet.

13/8/16 Egyptian Goose (John Martin)
Being grumpy

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Egyptian Goose, 52 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 63 Redshank, 7 Turnstone, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Chipping Sodbury Common:
am 3 Common Redstart

13/8/16 juv Common Redstart (Peter Coslett)
1 of 3 in Chipping Sodbury

Royal Portbury Dock:

1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine (male)

Bathampton Meadows:

4 Raven (poss 6)

Newton St Loe:
15 Mistle Thrush flock, (Thrushes will be massing in Scandinavia too, Redwing and Fieldfare)

Blagdon Lake:

Wookey Point: 1 Garganey, 2 Green Sandpiper

13/8/16 Black-tailed Godwit (Lee Gardiner)
Only two in morning

Chew Valley Lake:

early: 2 Goldeneye, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Heron's Green:

1 juv Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Reed Warbler
Moreton:

1 Hobby, 6 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 Chiffchaff

Stratford:
20 Cormorant, 1 Goldcrest
Ringing Station:

4 juv Willow Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler, 2 juv Treecreeper

Herriotts:

3 juv Shelduck, 20 Teal, 3 Shoveler, 2 Goldeneye, 1 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 juv Yellow-legged Gull,

13/8/16 Sparrowhawk (Dan Hill)
Dead House Sparrow in back garden, North Bristol

Reports: Teresa Chard, Peter Coslett, Anne Crowe, Mark Dadds, Sean Davies, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Craig Lewis, Jonathan Margetts, John Martin, Jean Oliver, Chris Perry, Gill Sapsed, Charles Stapleton, Chris Stone, Mrs Trellis, Suk kam Trippier, Severnside Birds