Sunday, 15 July 2018

15-07-18 Sunday - Wood Sandpiper

Fine, clear, hot and sunny yet again, with a moderate westerly keeping the temperature bearable.  Very high tides (new moon).

Marsh Harrier
Wood Sandpiper
Mediterranean Gulls, Yellow-legged Gulls 

3rd calendar-year Yellow-legged Gull at Chew (David Hughes)

BRISTOL

Clifton:
Screaming party of 20-25 Swift over Victoria Square at 13:35.

Withywood:
6 Collared Dove, 8 Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Dunnock, 2 high flying Raven.


Sparrowhawk chick in nest at Littleton (Mark Dadds)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
Wood Sandpiper flushed off at 8 a.m. but not seen since.  1 Ruff, 24 Black-tailed Godwit, c.125 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 45 Dunlin, 7 Common Sandpiper, 2 Mediterranean Gull (adult and 2nd summer), 1 (2 CY) Common Gull, Yellow Wagtail.


Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite, 1 Whinchat.


NORTH SOMERSET

Leigh Woods - Nightingale Valley:
1 Tawny Owl owlet heard calling.

Portishead - Boating Lake:
36 Canada Geese, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Mute Swan with 4 cygnets, Two Mallard broods of 1 and 3 ducklings, 1 Pied Wagtail.

Clevedon-Yeo:
c. 100 Dunlin, 3 Whimbrel.

Sand Point/Bay:
4 Oystercatcher, 111 Curlew in high tide roost, plus the first Redshank back, 2 Mediterranean Gull (adult summer and 1st-summer), BH Gull flocks.

Uphill:
WeBS count: 5 adult Shelduck (and 2 broods: 1 Shelduck with 3-4 half-grown juvs, and both parents with just 2 very small ducklings - did the gulls get the rest?), 18 Mallard, 1 Little Egret, 2 Oystercatcher, 20 Curlew, 1 Whimbrel, 62 Redshank, 823 BH Gull (including some juveniles), 1 H Gull, 12 LBB Gull, 17 Swift  (6 in a screaming party over beach road), 3+ Swallow, 8 Pied Wagtail (probably two families), Blackcap singing, Goldfinch singing.

Congresbury:
3 Buzzard, 5+ House Martin.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield (Shire Valley):
3 Red Kite, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Marsh Tit.

Keynsham:
5 Swift, 6 House Martin.


Common Sandpiper eating a froglet at Herons Green (Brian Thompson)

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Res's:
1 (rather tame) Greylag Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 213 Tufted Duck, 19 Common Sandpiper - 15 on Tank 2, 15 Sand Martin, 6 Grey Wagtail.

Chew Valley Lake
2 Little Egret, 13 Lapwing, 2 Ruff (moulting adult males), 2 Common Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper,  2 Kingfisher, 1 adult male Kestrel, 1 adult Hobby, 1 juv. Peregrine (presumed female on size), 7 Sand Martin.

Dunlin at Herons Green (Brian Thompson)
Heron's Green:
2 Dunlin, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (3CY and 4CY).

Herriott's Bridge:
1 moulting ad, fem type Marsh Harrier. - late addition 9 Green Sandpiper, late on.


Reports: John Barnett, Paul Bowyer, Jane Cumming, Neil Delaney, Richard Giles, Brian Lancastle, John Martin, Andy Mears, Fiona Neate, Sova, John Rossetti, Roger Staples, 'talkingtobears', Jason Williams,  and BUPP, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG