03-09-18 Monday - Cattle Egrets

Warm and rather muggy, dry.  Light breeze.  Sunny, but clouding over later.

Cattle Egrets, Great White Egrets
Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper
Little Gull, Yellow-legged Gulls, Black Terns
Tree Pipits, Whinchats

Hobby at Chew, a particularly nice photo (Bob Brewer)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
Kingfisher, Nuthatch, Spotted Flycatcher.


Withywood:
pr Mallard flying over a garden.


Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Tree Pipit, 1 Whinchat.

Ringed Plovers in flight at OPS (left) and
 juv Curlew Sandpiper still at OPS (Craig Lewis)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
3 Curlew, juv. Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 1 Tree Pipit.

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Kestrel, 3 Barn Swallow, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 1 Tree Pipit, 40+ Goldfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:

(High tide visit, 11:30-15:30)

150 Shelduck, 165 Mallard, 40 Teal, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Cattle Egret, 60 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Kestrel, 1 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 5 Oystercatcher, 225 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 235 Curlew, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 200 Dunlin, 220 Redshank, 125 Swallow, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 4 Whinchat, 22 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 3 Reed Bunting. 

Photographed yesterday in Nailsea

Nailsea:
from yesterday - a Nightjar, presumably a tired migrant.





BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports


RESERVOIRS

Wheatear at the dam, Blagdon Lake (George Stacey)

Blagdon Lake:
3 Garganey, 9 Great White Egret, 6 Little Egret, 6 Ringed Plover, 1 Spotted Redshank, 113 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Greenshank, 2 juv. Ruff, 2 Snipe, 1 Redshank, 3 Hobby, 1 juv. Wheatear.

Five Black Terns were at Chew again today (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake
2 Greylag Goose, 1 Shelduck, 7 Little Grebe, 87 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 13 Lapwing, 1 Ringed Plover, 6 Snipe, 4 Common Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 1 Little Gull, 7 GBB Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Black Tern, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Hobby, 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 30+ hirundines, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 11 Starling, 20 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Bullfinch, 5 Goldfinch.

Common Sandpiper at Chew (George Stacey)

Reports: Allan Chard, Neil Delaney, Craig Lewis, Brian Piercey, Steve Sanins, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, BUPP, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG