Tuesday, 24 July 2018

24-07-18 Tuesday - summer doldrums

Hot, fine and sunny with plenty of high cloud and a fresh wind.  No sign of any rain.


Great White Egrets
Yellow-legged Gull
Purple Heron still on the Levels
Red Kite, Redstart



Common Gulls are starting to return from their breeding grounds (Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL

Redland:
6 Swift

Montpelier Station:
1 Wren  - 'Sunning'
Wren 'sunning' 24th July 2018 Montpelier Station (Des Bowring - wildmonty)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE



Hawkesbury - Broad Hill:
1 Red Kite, Redstart.


New Passage/Northwick Warth:
(yesterday, 23rd)  1 Ruff, 45 Black-tailed Godwit, 120+ Redshank, 300+ Dunlin, 90+ Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 27 Shelduck, 31 Canada Geese.

Pilning Wetland:
4 Little Grebe, 1 Snipe, 1 Kestrel, 1 hunting Hobby.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
(Marina) 2 Cormorant.


Walton Common and North Clevedon coast (BOC walk):
1 Pheasant, 1 Buzzard, 6 Black-headed Gull (inc. 1 juv.), 8 Herring Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 10 Woodpigeon, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6 Magpie, 7 Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, 1 Coal Tit, 7 Blue Tit (3 juv,), 2 Great Tit, 19 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 4 Blackbird, 4 Robin, 4 House Sparrow, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 6 Linnet (one flock), 17 Goldfinch (one group of 7).

Little Owl at Marshfield (Pete Coslett)
BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
(Northfield Lane only)
1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Pheasant, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Little Owl (West Littleton Road), 20 Skylark, 40 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 15 House Sparrow, 20 Corn Bunting, 10 Yellowhammer, 10 Linnet, 15 Starling, various corvids.


Twerton, Bath:
3 Tawny Owl calling overnight.


Hunstrete:
2 Buzzard, 2 Raven cronking, Green Woodpecker calling.


Reed Warbler at Moreton (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
(yesterday, 23rd)  1 Mandarin Duck, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 46 Lapwing.


Litton Reservoir:
Kingfisher.


Chew Valley Lake
223 Canada Goose, 1 Egyptian Goose, 54 + Mute Swan, 1 escaped Black Swan, 4 Shelduckling, 2 Shoveler, 20+ Gadwall, 67 Teal, 87 Great Crested Grebe, 69 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 7 Buzzard, 6 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Dunlin, 18 Lapwing, 2 Common Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 37 juv. BH Gull, 8 GBB Gull, 7 Stock Dove, 14 Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 23 Jackdaw, 1 Raven, 1 Jay, 9 LT Tit, 3 House Martin, 12 Swallow, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 11 Reed Warbler (most chicks calling), 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Treecreeper, 1 Grey Wagtail, 17 Chaffinch, 6 Reed Bunting.

Dam:
1 Oystercatcher.

Heron's Green:
Tufted Duck + 7 ducklings, 2 Little Grebe (with 4 chicks), 1 Common Gull, 21 House Sparrow.

Moreton:
1 Kingfisher.

An albino Coot - I think not last year's bird?  (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's Bridge:
Tufted Duck + 3 ducklings, a "Pied Coot" aberrant,


Reports: Nancy Barrett, Des Bowring, Karle Burford, Judy Copeland, Peter Coslett, Anne Crowe, Robert Hargreaves, Vic Polley, Ian Stapp, BUPP, blagdonlakebirdsCVRSnslbirdingopsbirdingsevernsidebirdsTBOSG wildmonty