06 - 08 - 18 Monday - - Hobby

Another hot day - thank goodness the humidity was lower.

Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart
Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret, Swift, Little-ringed Plover
Cuckoo, Wheatear
Grasshopper Warbler
Mandarin

Marsh Harrier CVL Moreton 06-08-18 (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL
no reports


SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Cuckoo j 6th Aug 2018 Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)

New Passage/Northwick:
7 Teal, 18 Little Egret - equal record count, 100+ Lapwing, 154 Black-tailed Godwit, 13 Turnstone, 250+ Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 143 Redshank, 1 Garden Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 300 Starling, and a flock of 70 Goldfinch.

Severn Beach:
10 Little Egret, 1 Cuckoo (j) - day 2, 1 Wheatear.


Chipping Sodbury Common:
an hour this morning - 1 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, 20 Linnet,10 Goldfinch,.


NORTH SOMERSET


Dundry:
Grasshopper Warbler - a garden tick


BELOW M4 & BANES

Bishop Sutton: 
1 Blackcap

RESERVOIRS


Blagdon Lake:
1 (m) Mandarin Duck, and influx of Shoveler, Gadwall and Teal, 2 Little Egret, 26 Lapwing, 3 Green Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, and a White Wagtail.


Chew Valley Lake
combined report -

167 Canada, 44 Mute Swan, 3 Egyptian Goose, 3 Shelduck, 1 Garganey (f), 2 Little Grebe, 146 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1(j) Marsh Harrier, 6 Buzzard, 18 Lapwing, 1 Little-ringed Plover, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Dunlin , 1 Snipe, 7 Common Sandpiper, 13 Green Sandpiper, 22 (j) Black-headed Gull, 1 Common Gull, 9 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull (ad+j), 1 Collared Dove, 2 Swift,  Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel 1 Peregrine (hunting B-H Gulls over the lake), 2 Jay, 9 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 5 Sand Martins, 20+ Swallows & Martins, 1 Cetti's, 2 Chiffchaff, 12+ Reed Warbler (most j) 1 Grey Wagtail, 5 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 6 Goldfinch  2 Reed Bunting

Hobby 6th Aug 2018 CVL (Bob Brewer)

Moreton:
2 Hobby - ad feeding j

Stratford:
1 (j) Marsh Harrier

juv Yellow-legged Gull 6th Aug 2018 CVL (George Stacey)

Herriott's Pool:
1 juv Yellow-legged Gull.


Reports: Paul Bowerman, Bob Brewer, Karle Burford, Pete Coslett, Dave Nevitt, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, 
blagdonlakebirds severnsidebirds