31-5-18 Thursday Caspian Gull

Warm and sunny up to midday. Cloudy in the afternoon with drizzle morphing into thundery showers.

Caspian Gull , Red Kite, Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo 


BRISTOL

Stockwood Open Spaces:
5 Stock Dove, 10+ Woodpigeon, 3 Jay, 2 Coal Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 6 Song Thrush, 2 Greenfinch, 10+ Goldfinch.

St Anne's

Dunnock 31st May 2015 St Anne's (Gill Sapsed)

1 Dunnock - doing a Gene Kelly - singing in the rain.


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Inglestone Common:1 Red Kite

New Passage/Northwick:
5 Greylag Goose, 18 Shelduck (chicks), 1 Teal, 6 Lapwing, 5 Grey Plover, 16 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 7 Whimbrel, 7 Sanderling, 26 Dunlin, Spotted Flycatcher (Glen Pines)

Severn Beach
2 Ringed Plover, 12 Sanderling, 6 Dunlin, 4 Black-headed Gull, 1 Grey Wagtail,

NORTH SOMERSET

Worle:
Worlebury Hill Road and Golf Course:
10 Chaffinch, 2 Swallow, 1 Buzzard, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Kestrel (the best of slim pickings. A few active nests of Great Tit, Blue Tit; Blackbird and Robin were heard)

BELOW M4 & BANES

1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard (A368 at N Somerset/BANES border)

Newton St Loe:
1 Raven, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Yellowhammer, 4 Grey Wagtail (with young)
Mute Swan (with 7 cygnets), 1 Heron nest (with 2 young)

Bath:

Peregrine  juv 31st May 2018 Bath BUPP 37 days

3 Peregrine juv showing well at the church, nearly fully feathered.


RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
18 Tufted Duck

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Barnacle Goose, 9 Shelduck, 26 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret, 1 Hobby, 1 Sparrowhawk
1 Red Kite, 5 Buzzard, 1 Lapwing, 1 Caspian Gull, 5 G BB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull
2 G S Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Blackcap, 4 Garden Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Cetti's, 2 Willow Warbler, lots Reed Warbler, 3 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail, 9 Goldfinch, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Reed Bunting.
1 Cuckoo calling early.
(Caspian Gull: first year: large pale bird, big beak, with large Adam's apple type lump in neck, pale head. ID Keith Vinicombe)

31-5-18 Reed Bunting at the car park (Bob Brewer)

 Moreton:

31-5-18 GS Woodpecker at Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Herriotts Pond:

31-5-18 Caspian Gull at Herriots Pond (Ian Stapp)

 Reports: Mark Dadds, John Martin, Robert Hargreaves, George Rabin, Ian Stapp, Bob Brewer, Teresa Chard, Vic Polley. Gill Sapsed,  blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG