30-07-18 Monday

Intermittent rain; mild with a good breeze.

Wigeon
Great White Egret
Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull
Little Owl
Whinchat, Redstart

30-07-18  (very) juvenile Robin, New Passage (Lisegirl)

30-07-18 Tufted Ducklings, Heron's Green Pond, CVL (Ian Stapp)
(only 4 left now)

BRISTOL

Finzels Reach:
2 Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
4 Common Sandpiper (2 at yacht club, 2 on seawall off No 1 lagoon), 10 Redshank, 4 Turnstone, 1 Curlew, 430 BH Gull

Littleton-on-Severn:
1 Hobby

Northwick Warth:
1 juv Mediterranean Gull  with the BHG, 86 Black-tailed Godwit, c150 Dunlin, 3 Common Sandpiper in pill.

Pilning wetland:
1 Wigeon, 3 Little Egret, 6 Ringed Plover,  5 Swift, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 2 Goldcrest

30-07-18 fem/juv Redstart, Chipping Sodbury Common (Craig Lewis)

Chipping Sodbury Common:

2 Kestrel, 2  juv/female Redstart, 1 Whinchat

30-07-18 juv Little Owl, near Marshfield (Dean Reeves)

Marshfield:
West Littleton Lane - 1 juv Little Owl, 5 Skylark, Common Whitethroat, 46 Linnet, 8 Yellowhammer, 11 Corn Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:

6 Mute Swan, 1 Teal, 90 Mallard, 9 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 8 Oystercatcher, 30 Lapwing, 2 Ringed Plover, 1 Whimbrel, 120 Curlew, 13 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Turnstone, 120 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpiper, 135 Redshank, 700 Black-headed Gull, 8 LBB Gull, 25 Herring Gull, 2 Raven,  20+ Swallow (most feeding on the tide line at HT), a few Linnet

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports

RESERVOIRS

Dunlin 30-07-18, Dunlin , Heron's Green, CVL (Ian Stapp)(came in with the rain) 

Chew Valley Lake150+ Canada Goose, 60+ Mute Swan, 1 Black Swan (Herriotts), 150+ Teal ( Herriotts), Tufted Duck + (only 4 ducklings left Heron's Green pond), 2 Little Grebe + 4 (H G), 120 + Great crested Grebe,  1 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 6 Buzzard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Black-tailed Godwit (Herriotts), 1 Dunlin (Heron's Green wall - came in with a rain shower), 3 Common Sandpiper (1 Moreton, 2 Dam), 7 Green Sandpiper (Herriotts), 22 Lapwing, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 9 GBB Gull, 27 juv BH Gull, 1 Collared Dove, 22 Wood Pigeon,1 Stock Dove, 40+ Swift,1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 100+ Carrion  Crow + Jackdaw (cut Grass field Moreton with 58 Canada Goose + 11 Magpie), 50+ Swallow/ House Martin, 6 Sand Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff , 5 Reed Warbler, 1 Song Thrush,1 Mistle Thrush,1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Goldfinch, 10+ Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting

30-07-18 Reed Warbler, Moreton (Bob Brewer)

30-07-18 Cormorants, Stratfiord Bay, CVL (Bob Brewer)

Requests for help from BOC Twitter feed:

1. 'Severn Estuary' Saturday [No precise location given]. Dunlin with red flag on right tibia, no rings or flags on left leg. Can't find this scheme on http://cr-birding.org  Can anybody help? [Andrew@AndrewBirds144]

2. Can you take on a tetrad to survey for Tawny Owls? If you think you can, there are tetrads available across the UK; check out the available squares and register on http://www.bto.org/project-owl !

We are still looking for volunteers to help with Priority Squares in ST66 ( Keynsham, Stockwood, Compton Dando, Stanton Drew) also ST36 ( Weston-super-Mare , Worle, Hewish areas).  Go to http://www.bto.org/volunteer-surveys/project-owl … to help.
Reports: Andrew@AndrewBirds144, Bob Brewer, Craig Lewis, Andy Middleton, Aravind Ramesh, Dean Reeves, Harvey Rose, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Jason Williams