30-08-18 Thursday - Pintail eclipse male

Beautiful day today, mild and dry, lots of Sunshine and light winds.
Marsh Harrier, Pintail, 
Spotted Flycatcher
Hobby, Kingfisher, Scaup, Black-necked Grebe, Marsh Harrier,  
Little Owl
Whinchat, Wheatear, Tree Pipit, 
Arctic Tern, Common Tern
Redstart
Whimbrel

BRISTOL

Montpelier Park:
2 Carrion Crow, small mix of Blue and Great Tit, 1 Wren singing, a Blackbird in moult, and a Robin.

Hotwells - area:
1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Peregrine (A bond calling), 4 Greenfinch, and Linnet

Avonmouth, Lawrence Weston Lane - Hoar Gout end:

6 Mute Swan inc 4 well grown cygnets.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Ringed Plover plenty including one with leg rings - yellow with letters UFM, 1 Arctic Tern (j) -Tidal Lagoon, 1 Common Tern (Shepperdine), 1 Willow Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff - later 2 still singing, 10+ Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat, and in the flock 1 Spotted Flycatcher. 3 Yellow Wagtail, and a Grey Wagtail flew over.

Almondsbury:

 A Warbler 30th Aug 2018 Almondsbury (Vera Carpenter)
can you help with the ID?

Chiffchaff and Goldcrest in the garden this morning.

Aust:
Grey Heron, Little Egret, 2 Common Sandpiper, Meadow Pipit.

New Passage/Northwick:

Spotted Flycatcher 30th Aug 2018 New Passage (Lisa Presland)

2 Spotted Flycatcher this morning.

Northwick Warth:

Whimbrel 30th Aug 2018 New Passage (Lisa Presland)

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Little Ringed Plover (j), 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Wagtail

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Kestrel, 4 Peregrine Falcon - chasing a flock of Woodpigeon, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 5 Redstart, 3 Whinchat.

Winterbourne, Bradley Brook LNR:
1 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Raven, 15 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Willow Warbler, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (m), 9 Mistle Thrush (group), 1 Spotted Flycatcher (j), 1 Bullfinch.

Mayshill:
80 Swallow overhead - chattering into dusk

NORTH SOMERSET

One of about a dozen seen on the common today.
Spotted Flycatcher 30th Aug 2018 Walton Common (Terri Borash)

Clevedon-Yeo:

4 Bar Headed Goose and a hybrid, heading towards Wain's Hill sluice marsh, and combined morning walk reports - 15 Mute Swan, 200 Shelduck- inc 8 well grown juv, 90 Mallard, 1 Pintail - ♂ eclipse, 12 Teal, 4 Grey Heron, 14 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier - ♀, 40 Oystercatcher, 36 Lapwing, 400 Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel (possible), 110 Curlew, 33 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Turnstone, 8 Knot, 250 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 180 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 150 Black-headed Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Raven, 4 Skylark, 30 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 1 Whinchat, 1 Meadow Pipit, 3 Rock Pipit, 40 Goldfinch, 50 Linnet.

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Sand Martin, 50 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Whitethroat, 3 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, 1 Tree Pipit, 16 Meadow Pipit.

300 small waders in the bay plus 3 Yellow Wagtail.

Puxton Moor:
2 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 2 Raven, 2 Sedge Warbler, 8 Goldfinch.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield: - an hour along Northfield Lane:
1 Little Owl, 1 Chiffchaff, and 4 Yellow Wagtail.

Keynsham - Memorial Park
1 Black-headed Gull, 8 House Sparrows, 1 Grey Wagtail - but the Mandarin has gone missing!
Bath - Weston:

Greenfinch 30th Aug 2018 BathGorging themselves on Sunflower hearts (Sean Whyte)

Newton St Loe:
4 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 60 Jackdaw, 3 Raven, 4 Coal Tit, 5 House Martin only and no Barn Swallow, 4 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 20+ Mistle Thrush, 1 Bullfinch, 3 Linnet, 30 Goldfinch. - best / most of - out of 37 species seen today.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
3 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, unusual to find 20 Moorhen well out in the lake, 134 Black-tailed Godwit (best count of a moving throng), 5 Greenshank, 2 ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull - Guernsey and Bristol birds.

Chew Valley Lake
139 Canada Goose, 2 Greylag Goose, 64 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck,  44 Shoveler, 33 Gadwall, 40+ Pochard, 2 Scaup (F), 78 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Black-necked Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 3 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 4 Buzzard, 2 Greenshank, 12 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove,  3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Hobby, 4 Jay, 6 Jackdaw, 5 Raven, lots Long-tailed, Blue & Great Tit, Treecreeper, House Sparrow, Chaffinch & Great Spotted Woodpecker - all feeding on blackberries, 7 Cetti's Warbler - some calling, 2 Chiffchaff, 5 Reed Warbler, 1 Treecreeper, 30+ House Sparrows, 6 Pied Wagtail, 10 Chaffinch, 12+ Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting.

Woodford:
1 Common Gull

Little Grebe + chick 30th Aug 2018  Villice (Bob Brewer)

Villice:
Little Grebe, 4 Hobby

Yellow-legged Gull 30th Aug 2018 Heron's Green  (Ian Stapp)

Heron's Green:
22 Little Grebe, 1 Common Sand, 30+ Starlings, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Moreton:
1 Black-headed Gull - ring black on yellow 2KTS, 6 Goldcrest, 2 Song Thrush.

Herriott's Bridge:
1 Water Rail - calling, 14 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 6 Green Sand, 1 Kingfisher.

Blue Bowl:
5 House Martin - on the wires.

Bishop Sutton:
2 Swallow.

Marksbury:
200+ Starling - on the wires.

Reports: Terri Borash, Dru Brook-Taylor, Vera Carpenter, Paul Chapman, Pete Coslett, Paul Bowyer, Mike Jackson, Lisa Presland, Aravind Ramesh,  Adam Rawson, Trevor Riddle, Gareth Roberts, Harvey Rose, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Dan White, Sean Whyte, BUPP, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG wildmonty