Friday 28 September 2018

28-09-18 Friday - Spoonbill

Temp 12 to 18℃. Another beautiful day with cloudy start and early cold wind, calmer now

Garganey
Spoonbill
Cattle Egret
Hen Harrier
Red Kite
Spotted Redshank
Yellow-legged Gull
Ring-necked Parakeet
Whinchat

28-9-18 Spoonbill at Villice, CVL (Dave Hughes)
BRISTOL

Avonmouth, Catherine Street:
1 Ring-necked Parakeet

Stapleton, Holy Trinity:
Peregrine

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Whinchat, 5 Stonechat, 1 Clouded Yellow

Yate Shopping Centre:
1 Raven over at 09:20 heading SW

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Battery Point:
1 Meadow Pipit - (johnny no mates!)

Walton Bay:
2 Hen Harriers flew low over Walton Bay at 11.30  heading North

Clevedon-Yeo:
12 Mute Swan, 200 Shelduck, 9 Wigeon, 90 Mallard, 8 Teal, 1 Little Grebe, 14 Little Egret, 10 Oystercatcher, 39 Lapwing, 14 Ringed Plover, 120 Curlew, 2 Turnstone, 70 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 2 Greenshank, 280 Redshank, 100 BH Gull, 1 Raven, 5 Rock Pipit, 1 Siskin (over town)

Backwell Lake:
1 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher

Kewstoke garden:
1st Blackcap

Bleadon Village:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Red Kite, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven

BELOW M4 & BANES

Keynsham:
3 Raven (Manor Rd)

Chelwood:
2 Buzzard, 100 mixed Crows & Jackdaws

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Spoonbill (Top End Hide), 4 Greenshank

28-9-18 Egyptian Goose, Dam (TtB)
Chew Valley Reservoir:
2 Barnacle Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 1 Shelduck, 1 f/1cy Garganey, lots Shoveler, 18 Wigeon (Herons Green), 9 Pintail (Herriotts), lots Pochard, lots & lots Tufted Duck, 16 Little Grebe (HG), 5 Cattle Egret ( roost on Nunnery), 6 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 1 Spoonbill (Villice, then West), 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 1 Marsh Harrier (over Stratford north), 2 white Coot, 1 Water Rail

28-9-18 Black-tailed Godwit, Herriott's pool (Ian Stapp)
15 Lapwing, 42 Black-tailed Godwit, 15 Snipe, 5 Common and 3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Redshank (V), 1 Greenshank (Moreton), 7 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull (HG), 4 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher (H), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby (M), 2 Jay, 2 Raven, 5 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey and 5 Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit, 7 Goldfinch, 2 Roe Deer

28-9-18 Yellow-legged Gull, Herons Green (Ian Stapp)
Out of Avon:
Short-toed Lark, Spoonbill, Curlew Sandpiper and Grey Phalarope from Huntspill Sea Wall
Whooper Swan on Dumbles, Slimbridge

Reports: Rich Andrews, Chris Craig, Lee Gardiner, Peter Hazelwood, Nick Hawkridge, Helly, Bill Hewitt, David Howes, David Hughes, Nigel Milbourne, James Packer, Shane Pannell, Matt Plenty, Lois Pryce, Dean Reeves, Harvey Rose, Richard Scantlebury, Andy Slade, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Gwen Thomas, TtB, Martin Wightman, Jason Williams