Red Kite, Barn Owl, Spotted Sandpiper
BRISTOL
Red Kite (this morning Portbury Wharf, heading N)
Red Kite (10:30 over M5 at Cribbs)
Red Kite (13:00 Tweet Whiteladies Road heading to centre)
Red Kite (13:10 over Yate heading East)
2 Red Kite (14:30 Dean Road Yate, flying SE)
Same birds probably. More (same) seen over Kenn Moor, Chew Valley Lake and Cam
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| 11-5-18 Songthrush in St Anne's Park (Gill Sapsed) |
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| 11-5-18 Buzzard over the Avon at St Anne's (Tiger8lotus) |
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Canada Geese, (6m 3f), Mallard (plus 5 ducklings), 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard,
6 Moorhen (plus 4 young, 1 Coot, 2 Greater spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 6 Magpie, 7 Jackdaw,
1 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 1 Blue Tit, 2 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 1 Long Tailed Tit, 1 Blackcap,
1 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Common Whitethroat, 1 Wren, 4m Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Robin,
2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting
Sea Mills:
1 Kestrel, c.12 House Martin (don’t appear to have started nest building yet), pair Starlings feeding young in nest in house gable end.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
New Passage/Northwick:
1 Cetti's Warbler, 10 Swift, 10 House Martin, 1, Yellow Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail, 1 Little Egret,
3 Black-headed Gull, 4 Whimbrel, 2 Curlew, 2 Little Ringed Plover
Yate:
Peregrine (over shopping centre)
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury Wharf:
1 Spotted Sandpiper (Summer Plumage, view island from N Hide), 1 Barn Owl
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| 11-5-18 Spotted Sandpiper (Chris Stone finder) (Paul Bowerman) |
12 Mute Swan, 6 Canada Goose, 70 Shelduck, 2 Teal (Both females at Dowlais)
2 Tufted Duck, 1 Cormorant, 1 Kestrel, 3 Coot 3 (They seem to have taken up residence at KP)
6 Oystercatcher, Lapwing 8 (All at Dowlais, no chicks today)
11 Whimbrel, 12 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Dunlin, 1 Greenshank (Heard only over Blake's Pools)
2+ Redshank (At Dowlais), 1 Black-headed Gull (At KP), 30 LBB Gull, 25 Herring Gull
2 Raven, 1 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler
Kenn:
1 Red Kite ( low, heading NW at 1005), 5 Buzzard, 2 Swift, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 5 Skylark, 1 Raven, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Whitethroat, 4 Reed Bunting (and 1 Zebra Finch!)
BELOW M4 & BANES
Willsbridge:
Tawny Owl
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| 11-5-18 Tawny Owl at Willsbridge (@avglochris) |
RESERVOIRS:
Chew Valley Lake:
3 Red Kite (over fields W of Heron's Green), 1 Arctic Tern, 1 Hobby
Stratford Hide
1 Red Kite, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 50 Sand Martin.
Main Dam
c 100 Swift
Out of area:
3 Red Kite over Cam, heading N
Reports: John Martin, Harvey Rose, Gordon Youdale, Michael Davis, Nick Beamson, Gill Sapsed, Gingerbirder,
Giles Morris, Chris Stone, Trevor Riddle, @Tiger8lotus, Derek Angell, Patrick Hardyman Richards,
Paul Bowerman, Mike Jenkins, Lee Gardiner, Lois Pryce, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
