Marsh Harriers and Yellow-legged Gull at Chew
Whinchat, Redstart at Chipping Sodbury
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| Kingfisher (Allan Chard) |
no reports
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Severn Beach:
2 Common Sandpiper (in a riveting high tide roost count).
Almondsbury (garden):
juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch.
Chipping Sodbury Common:
Buzzard, Kestrel, 3 Whinchat, 4 Redstart, 2 Bullfinch.
NORTH SOMERSET:
Weston-super-Mare:
Peregrine hunting the gulls that are hunting the flying ants.
BELOW M4 & BANES
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| Starlings in Keynsham (Ian Stapp) |
Manor Road playing field: 60+ Starling feeding on ants.
Pensford:
14 Swift, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Grey Wagtail.
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| Goldfinch at the Dam (Ian Stapp) |
20+ hirundines in villages around Chew.
Black Swan, pair of Egyptian Geese, 22 Little Grebe, flock of 180 Great Crested Grebe, 34 Cormorant, 9 Little Egret, 2 juv Marsh Harrier, 5 Lapwing, 1 ad Dunlin (Herriotts), 2 ad Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 2nd-yr Yellow-legged Gull (in its usual spot - on the defunct fishing jetty in Heron's Green Bay), 13 Great Black-backed Gull, 60 Sand Martin, Nuthatch. Also a moulting flightless adult Water Rail - don't see those very often. (KEV)
Dam:
1 Barnacle Goose with 46 Canada Goose, 12+ Swallows, 12 Goldfinch.
Moreton:
2 Marsh Harrier together in front of the hide at 14:25, both juveniles.
1 Barnacle Goose with 46 Canada Goose, 12+ Swallows, 12 Goldfinch.
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| juv Marsh Harrier with all its primaries (David Hughes) |
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| Second juv Marsh Harrier with some moulted primaries (David Hughes) |
2 Marsh Harrier together in front of the hide at 14:25, both juveniles.
3 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker.
Reports: Vera Carpenter, Ken Carruthers, David Hughes, David Poulton, Robert Purveur, Ian Stapp, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds
Reports: Vera Carpenter, Ken Carruthers, David Hughes, David Poulton, Robert Purveur, Ian Stapp, Keith Vinicombe, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds
