14-05-18 Monday - Spotted Flycatcher

Beautiful day: dry, sunny, light wind -  perfect.

Back to 'normal' fare today after excitements of last few days....

Red Kite
Little Ringed Plover
Cuckoo
Spotted Flycatcher

14-5-18 handsome study of a Whitethroat at Aust Warth (Rod Holbrook)

BRISTOL
No reports


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury:
2 Swift

Yate - Wapley Bushes LNR
1 Nuthatch -- a first for the site

14-5-18 Little Ringed Plover, New Passage (Paul Bowerman)

New Passage/Northwick:
1 Little Ringed Plover


NORTH SOMERSET

14-5-18 Spotted Flycatcher, Portbury Wharf (Matt Ames)

Portbury Wharf
1 Spotted Flycatcher

Leigh Woods:
2+ Spotted Flycatcher round the fort. [No sign of yesterday's Golden Oriole in 3 hours of searching ]

Weston STW:

Little Grebe with young, Great Crested Grebe, 1 Cuckoo, 30+ Swift, 3 Lesser Whitethroat


BELOW M4 & BANES

14-5-18 Peregrine chicks, Bath (BUPP)
Another developmental milestone - wing exercising begins in earnest

Cameley:
3 Red Kite

Bath - Prior Park:
Woodpecker drumming - Blackcap, Robin, Stock Dove and Song Thrush all in good voice....


RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:

14-5-18 Buzzard, Moreton, CVL, (Ian Stapp)

1 Barnacle Goose, 13 Shelduck, 12 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, 4 Buzzard, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 4 Common Sandpiper, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 GBB Gull, 2 Stock Dove, 20+ Swift, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 2 Hobby, 2 Raven, 2 Jay,  50+ Swallow + House Martin,  3 Cetti's Warbler,  2 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warbler, 2 Sedge Warbler, 'lots' Reed Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Song Thrush, 7 House Sparrow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 11 Pied Wagtail, 5 Goldfinch

Herriott's Pool:
1 Ringed Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit still

14-5-18 Common Sandpiper, Dam, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Matt Ames, Paul Bowerman, Robert Hargreaves, Adrian Hockey, Rod Holbrook, Mike Jackson, Glen Maddison, Dave Nevitt, Matt Scott, Ian Stapp, BUPP,  blagdonlakebirds,  CVRS,   nslbirding,   opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG