21-07-18 Saturday - Whimbrel

Temp 16 to 26℃. Cloudier than recent by still hot as very close, not much wind

Great White Egret
Whimbrel
Mediterranean and Yellow-legged Gull
Spotted Flycatcher

BRISTOL

21-7-18 Peregrine at Finzel's Reach (Dan White)

Finzel's reach:
Peregrine

Warmley Brook:
12 Swift screeching over tennis courts

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

21-7-18 Skylark coping with heat at Northwick Warth (Brian Lancastle)

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
3 Whimbrel, 60 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 juv Mediterranean Gull

NORTH SOMERSET

19-7-18 Kingfisher fishing for a family again, Blackwell (Chris James)

Backwell:
Kingfisher channel that was cleared now has Kingfishers rearing second brood

Sand Point:
1 Common Sandpiper, 6 Meadow Pipit. 13 Swallow and 1 Yellow Wagtail North

Worle quarry:
2 Peregrines have fledged so 4 vocal birds to see and hear over garden

Lower Claverhan, Brockley Way:
Yellowhammer singing

BELOW M4 & BANES

21-7-18 Dipper at Willsbridge Mill (Brian Thompson)

Willsbridge Mill:
1 Dipper

19-7-18 Spotted Flycatcher from Newton St Loe (NSL Birding)

Newton St Loe:

3 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 2 Moorhen with 3 chicks, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 4 Great and 3 Green Woodpecker, 14 Long-tailed Tit in thistle patch with Chiffchaffs, Goldcrests and Tits, 4 Blackcap, 10 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 5 Spotted Flycatcher (3 juv), 2 Grey Wagtail

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake, 20th:
3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 5 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 juv Mediterranean Gull, 1 3cyr Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Kingfisher,

Reports: Paul Bowyer, Robert Hargreaves, Julian Head, Chris James, Brian Lancastle, Nigel Milbourne, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Brian Thompson, Dan White, Paul Williams, CVRS