26-07-18 Thursday - Turnstone

Temp 15 to 31.2 ℃. Very warm today, despite cloud and breeze, till the sun won the day

26-7-18 Common Tern at the Dam, CVL (Bob Brewer)
one of nine through today

Mandarin Duck
Goshawk
Purple Heron 24th and possibly today, Great White Egret
Whimbrel, Turnstone, Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull
Common Tern

BRISTOL

26-7-18 Peregrine, St Phillips Bridge (Rich Scantlebury) 

Finzel's reach:
1 Peregrine drops Pigeon on passers by.

Kingswood, Glanville Gdns:
14 Swift screeching over at midday

Bishopston:
11 Swifts - this morning

Redland:
10 Swifts at 21.05

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
30 Canada Goose, 2 Teal, 5 Turnstone (first in here), 14 Shelduck, 12 Tufted Duck, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 3 Cormorant, 1 Curlew, 200 BH Gull, 1 Common Gull, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 1 Blackcap, 24 Pied Wagtail

26-7-18 Turnstone, New Passage (Rob Hargreaves)

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
30+ Canada Geese, 27 Shelduck, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 22 Oystercatcher, 60+ Lapwing, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Curlew, 57 Black-tailed godwit, 3 Turnstone, 185 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 128 Redshank, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Raven, 60+ Swallow, 12 Pied Wagtail, 30 Linnet

26-7-18 Green Woodpecker in the Glen (Lisegirl)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead:
5 Swift over Kilkenny Place

Backwell:Has anyone seen how many Little Egrets are coming into roost yet?

Clevedon Yeo:
8 Mute swan, 4 Canada Geese, 30 Shelduck +new brood of 10, 2 Little Egret, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 8 Oystercatcher, 12 Lapwing, 9 Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 140 Curlew, 5 Black-tailed godwit, 60 Dunlin, 1 Ruff (KP), 2 Common Sandpiper, 140 Redshank, 1 Snipe heard, 500+ BH Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 25 Herring Gull, 2 Raven, 6 Swallow

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Lansdown Hill:
1 m Goshawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 pair Peregrine
Newton St Loe:

4 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 5 Swift, 100 Jackdaw, 15 Swallow, 25 House Martin, 20+ Long-tailed Tit, 1 Whitethroat, 3 Nuthatch, 5 Mistle Thrush, 1 Bullfinch

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake, 25th:
1♂ Mandarin Duck, c. 18 Lapwings, 4 Common Sandpipers, 1 juv Yellow-legged Gull

26-7-18 Buzzard, Moreton (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake:
123 Canada Geese, 69 Mute Swan, 1 Tufted Duck with 7 ducklings, 2 Little Grebe + 4 juvs, 168 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Purple Heron seen 24th from CVRS (MR), possible Purple Heron at HG today (RM), 1 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, 7 Buzzard, 1 Oystercatcher, 21 Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper at HG and Nun, 10 Green Sandpiper, 29 juv BH Gull, 1 ad Common Gull, 10 GBB Gull, a juv Herring Gull, 4 Yellow-legged Gull

26-7-18 Common Tern at the Dam, CVL (Bob Brewer)

9 Common Tern, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker (M), 1 Kestrel, 2 Jay, 18 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 5 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush (Nunnery), 13 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

26-7-18 Little Egret, Herriotts  (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Pete Brain, Bob Brewer, Stuart Gray, Robert Hargreaves, Lisegirl, Robin Martin, Andrew Middleton, Nigel Milbourne, Jean Oliver, Dee Pope, Mike Rowan, Harvey Rose, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Brian Thompson, CVRS, NSL-birding