3rd September '17 Sunday - Black Terns

Grey, windy, showers then drizzle - but there's always somebody out there.

Curlew Sandpiper at Shepperdine
Black Terns and Common Terns at Chew
Black-necked Grebe at Blagdon
Woodchat Shrike still being reported at Chipping Sodbury Common

Great White Egret through the drizzly murk at Herriotts Bridge
(Pete Coslett)

BRISTOL
no reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Tortworth Lake:
3 Mallard with 3 young, 29 Tufted Duck, 1 Cormorant, 4 Little Grebe with 1 young, 20 Coot with 2 youngish, 2 Moorhen, 1 Kingfisher, 30 Martins, 1 Grey Wagtail

Whitfield House – Abbotside Farm (near Cromhall):
2 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker youngster, a parent heard calling only, Swallows, Martins, 

Oldbury Power Station:

juv Curlew Sandpiper at Shepperdine with flock of Dunlin and Ringed Plover.  1 Wheatear.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Tree Pipit, 8 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Wheatear, 9 Whinchat, 10 Redstart, juv Woodchat Shrike, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 6 Whitethroat.

NORTH SOMERSET:

Portishead marina:
3 Cormorants.

Nailsea:
1 Wheatear on the reporter's driveway.

Bleadon:
1 m. Sparrowhawk, 1 m. Kestrel, 3 ad. and 10 juv Moorhen.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
1 Dipper.

Paulton:
2 Buzzard, 3 Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 17 House Martin,
4 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay.

(at the sewage works)  7 Grey Wagtail.

RESERVOIRS:

Blagdon Lake:
1 Black-necked Grebe, 1 Little Egret, 2 juv. Hobby, 1 juv. Little Ringed Plover, 9 Ringed Plover. 1000+ hirundines, mainly House Martin.

adult Little Egret - yellow slippers (Lee@Wildwood)

Chew Valley Lake:
Little Egrets, Hobby, Snipe.

Moreton:
7 Black Tern, 3 Common Tern

Herons Green:
7 Great White Egret.

Herriott's Bridge:
3 Great White Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 juv Black Tern.

Reports: Rich Andrews, Teresa Chard, Janey Clark, Mark Coller, Richard Giles and Fiona Neate, Patrick Hancock, Lee@Wildwood, Glen Maddison, Gary Thoburn, Tim Worsfold, blagdonlakebirds,  CVRS, nslbirding,  opsbirding,  severnsidebirds