21-05-18 Monday - Nightingale

Temp 11 to 24℃. Hot again, a few drops of rain in afternoon, nice in the shade

21-5-18 Swift, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)

Garganey
Red Kite
Little Ringed Plover 
Hobby
Spotted Flycatcher
Wheatear

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
1 Raven, 3 Swift

Cribbs Causeway, Catbrain Lane:
1 Stock Dove

21-5-18 Grey Heron, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)

Stoke and Eastville Park:

3 Grey Heron, 6 Swift

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station, a.m:

2 Red Kite, 6 Raven

Severnside:
2 Garganey (Butts Pool)

Frampton Cotterell, a.m:

1 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite

Yate, Kingsgate Park:
1 Nightingale singing

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Kestrel, 6 Skylarks, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1  Chiffchaff, 1 Greenfinch, pair Linnet, pair Reed Bunting

Thornbury- Tesco

1 Peregrine

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Sand Martin

Sand Point:
5 Buzzard, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

21-5-18 Wheater, Weston Moor (Melvin Hughes)

Weston Moor:
1 Wheatear

Yatton, Strawberry Lane:

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Cetti’s Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Sedge Warbler, 16 Reed Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 3 Reed Bunting

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake, WeBS:

40 Canada Geese, 35 Mute Swan, 1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shoveler, 57 Mallard, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Buzzard, 23 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Grey Heron, 5 Cormorant, 3 Moorhen, 111 Coot, 1 Lapwing, 3 BH Gull, 1 GBB Gull, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Hobby, 1 Treecreeper, 3 Grey Wagtail, 3 Pied Wagtail

21-5-18 Mistle Thrush, Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake:

1 Greylag  Goose, 1 Barnacle Goose, 4 Shoveler, 20 Gadwall, 3 Buzzard, 1 Little Ringed Plover (Dam), 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 GBB Gull, 2 Stock Dove, 4 Swift, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 4 Sand Martin, 20 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 1 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, lots Reed Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 2 Garden Warbler, 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Grey Wagtail, 10 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

21-5-18 Reed Warbler, Herriotts (Ian Stapp)

Out of UK
Vera Carpenter in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana

Nightingales at Lodge Hill:
This site has the highest number of Nightingales, 85 out 5,500, anywhere in the UK. Medway council want to allocate this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for development. Please go to rspb.org.uk/savenightingales to urge Medway Council to protect this site

Reports: Rich Andrews, Nancy Barrett, Paul Bowerman, Mark Coller, Rob Emery, forthebirds, Robert Hargreaves, Phil Hemming, Melvin Hedges, Adrain Hockey, David Howes, Andrew Mears, Nigel Milbourne, Trevor Riddle, Matt Scott, Ian Stapp, Martin Tayler, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG