05-10-18 Friday - Hen Harrier

Temp 13 to 20℃. Just beautiful again, warm dry and Sunny with a light breeze

Hen Harrier
Garganey, Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Red-breasted Merganser
Black-necked Grebe
Cattle Egret
Jack Snipe, Spotted Redshank
Yellow-legged Gull
No Swallow but 2 House Martin
Red Kite

5-10-18 Common Sandpiper, Dam, CVL (TtB)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
2 Little Egret flew down river at 8.30

5-10-18 Kingfisher on the River Avon (Lee Gardiner)

Tidal River Avon:
1 Kingfisher

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick Warth:
130 Canada Geese, 4 Mute Swan, 5 Shelduck, 4 Gadwall, 220 Wigeon, 6 Teal, 2 Tufted Duck, 3 Moorhen, 15 Coot,  3 Lapwing, 50 Turnstone, 30 Dunlin, 100 Redshank, flocks 80 Linnet and 15 Goldfinch

NORTH SOMERSET

Sand Point:
Ringtail Hen Harrier West, single group of 10 Jay West, 2 Chiffchaff , 1 Wheatear

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Bloomfield Park:
1 f Blackcap feeding on clerodendron berries. The earliest to visit our garden in autumn

Bath, Combe Down:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Barrow Tanks, No 3:
2 Black-necked Grebe

5-10-18 Common Sandpiper, Villice (George Stacey)

Chew Valley Reservoir:
3 Egyptian Geese, 1 Shelduck, 1 juv Garganey, lots Wigeon, 9 Pintail, lots Pochard, 1000+ Tufted Duck, 1 m Aythya Hybrid, 1 f Scaup, 1 ad f Lesser Scaup (H Bridge, S), 1 Red-breasted Merganser (V a.m.), 13 Little Grebe ( Herons Green), 37 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Cattle Egret (5 Widcombe Farm, 3 HP), 6 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 2 white Coot, 5 Water Rail (HP), 9 Lapwing, 20 Black-tailed Godwit (HP)

5-10-18 Jack Snipe, Herons Green (Ian Stapp)

1 Jack Snipe(HP), 10 Snipe (9 HP,1 HG), 3 Common and 3 Green Sandpiper

5-10-18 Spotted Redshank, Villice (George Stacey)

2 j Spotted Redshank (1 HP, 1 V), 3 Greenshank, 4 Common Gull (HP), 8 GBB Gull, 3 Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted and 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Jay, 1 Raven, 2 House Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 20 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 6 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

5-10-18 Black-tailed Godwit, Herriott's pool (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Sean Davies, Andy Davis, Simon Harris, Adrian Hockey, Brian Martin, Rich Scantlebury, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, TtB