Monday, 9 July 2018

09-07-18 Monday - Yellow Wagtail

Continuing hot, dry and sunny

Red Kite
Little Ringed Plover, Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull, Mediterranean Gull
Little Owl  
Yellow Wagtail


09-07-18 A welcome garden visitor - male Green Woodpecker, Bishop Sutton (Bob Brewer)

BRISTOL

Snuff Mills:
1 Kingfisher, 1 Grey Wagtail

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

OldburyPower Station:
I Hobby

Littleton -upon- Severn:
2 Little Owl  

Pilning wetland:
9 Little Egret, 23 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Little Ringed Plover,  increase in Redshank and Dunlin on shore, 2 Yellow Wagtail new in

New Passage - Northwick Warth:
Black-tailed Godwit, 5+ juv Little Ringed Plover (foreshore shingle), 27 Dunlin, 9+ Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET

Kenn:
107 Lapwing feeding on a recently- cut grass field. 'The farmer alerted me, said that he hadn’t heard so many grasshoppers for years so perhaps that is the attraction. It’s an unusual record for Kenn Moor in July.'

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Whimbrel (new in today), 200+ Black-headed Gull (numbers building daily)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common:
1 Red Kite - seen over the past week

Keynsham:
4 Swift

09-07-18 Sand Martins at nest hole, Bath (Robert Hargreaves)
Bath:
At least 22 Swift above Twerton late evening (see photo below), 2 Sand Martin nests

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks:
3 juv Little Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Snipe, Lapwing, 4 Common Sandpiper

Chew Magna Reservoir:
2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper.
Also 1 Lesser Emperor dragonfly

Chew Valley Lake

246 Canada Goose (64 - Dam; 72 -Woodford;  84 - Stratford; 26 - Herriotts) ,1 Black Swan, 87 Mute Swan, 34 Teal, 5 Shelduck ( + 4 ducklings), 45 Gadwall, 78 Great Crested Grebe,  2 Little Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, 3 Little Egret, 4 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite (Stanton Wick 7.08 am), 5 G BB Gull, 5 Stock Dove, 20+ Wood Pigeon, 4 Collared Dove, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 4 Jay,  20+ Swallow, 10+ House Martin (most in villages), 3 Cetti's Warbler, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, lots Reed Warbler, 4 Goldcrest, 6 Starling, 4 Song Thrush, 15 House Sparrow (Blue Bowl), 11 Pied Wagtail, 3 Goldfinch, 16+ Chaffinch, 5 Reed Bunting
 09-07-18 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, Dam, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Dam: 1 Redshank, 1 juv Yellow-legged Gull
09-07-18 Redshank, Dam, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Heron's Green:
3 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper,

Moreton:
Great Crested Grebe here has only 2 chicks now, 1 Water Rail, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
Also 1 Fox, 7 Silver-washed Fritillary

Herriott's Pool:
2 Oystercatcher , 5 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 moulting ad male Ruff, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Snipe, 1 juvenile Mediterranean Gull, 1 juvenile Yellow-legged Gull,1 Kingfisher, c 20 Sand Martin


09-07-18 Swifts after sunset above Twerton, Bath (Robert Hargreaves)
Reports: Paul Bowerman, Paul Bowyer, Dan@twit1144, Sean Davies, Rob Emery,  Steven Grice, Robert Hargreaves, Rob Laughton, John Martin, Nigel Milbourne,Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, TalkingtoBears