28-6-18 Thursday - returning waders

Fine, sunny and baking hot - birders must have been deeply grateful for the easterly breeze.


Ruff. Green Sandpipers etc. - returning wader passage
Yellow-legged Gull
Little Owl
Pied Crow

Wren photographed at Chew (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL
no reports.


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Brood of Shelduck, 4 broods of Tufted Duck, 11 Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Coal Tit,  juv. Cetti's Warbler calling.

Yacht Club: 3 Redshank, 2 Lapwing.

New Passage/Northwick:
62 Shelduck, 1♂ Teal, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 18 Curlew, 215 Black-headed Gull.

Severn Beach: (27th June)

23 Black-headed Gull.

Bradley Brook LNR, Winterbourne:
1 Little Owl, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 3 Swallow, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Bullfinch (1 m., 1 juv).



NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:

14 Mute Swan, 6 Canada Goose, 75 Shelduck (broods/creches 13+7+9+12), 60+ Mallard (new brood of 7), 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Cormorant, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 imm. Peregrine, 4 Coot, 10 Oystercatcher, 5 Grey Plover (2 in full summer plumage; good count here), 1 Lapwing, 3 imm. Little Ringed Plover, 1+ Whimbrel, 70 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 55 Redshank, 100+ Black-headed Gull (one juv.), 10 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler singing.

Clevedon:
15 Swift in the ctr just after 21:00.

Pied Crow 28th June 2018 Clevedon -Teignmouth Rd (Paul Bowerman)

1 Pied Crow

Nailsea:
6 Swift - over east Nailsea (Tesco's), 3 over west Nailsea (Methodist church).

Wick - Quarry:
1 Peregrine


BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:

Pipley Wood area:
1 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Skylark, 3 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Chaffinch, 8 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer.

The Oval:
4 Swift

Midsomer Norton:
Red Kite at 10.55 being mobbed by gulls over Somervale School.



RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
c. 200 Canada Goose, 90+ Mute Swan, 5 Shelduck (+ 4 ducklings), 28 Teal, 50+ Gadwall, 2 Shoveler, 1 Little Grebe, 4 Buzzard, 1 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 6 G BB Gull, 2 Stock Dove,  100+ Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 2 Jay, 2 LT Tit, 20 Sand Martin, 12+ Swallow, 20+ House Martin, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 4 Cetti's Warbler, lots Reed Warbler, 7 House Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch, 9 Chaffinch, 5 Reed Bunting.

Moreton/Stratford:
1 m. Ruff, 1 Tawny Owl called.

Herriott's Bridge:
4 Little Egret, family of Water Rail (heard), 2 Yellow-legged Gull (one adult and one ringed 3CY bird thought to be the Swiss-ringed bird first seen in July 2016).

Reports Paul Bowerman, Pete Coslett, Steve Curtis,: Jane Cumming, Mark Dadds, Andy Davis, Robert Hargreaves, Mike Jackson, Harvey Rose, Marcus Smith, Ian Stapp,  BUPP, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG