Wednesday 8 May 2019

08-05-19 Wednesday - Little Stint

Shower and a little sunshine

Little Stint
Black Tern
Whinchat
Sanderling
Arctic Tern
Short-eared Owl
Common Scoter
Pomarine Skua
Arctic Skua


BRISTOL

Lockleaze:
08-05-2019 Starling Lockleaze Pat Richards
Eastville, Huyton Road
2 Swift and the presumed hybrid Spanish/Italian x House Sparrow is still present.

Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
2 Swallow, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Whitethroat

Redland:
4 Swift circling over the garden - at last spring is hear.

Stockwood:
1 Barn Owl - a welcome sight after an 8 week absence

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 Buzzard, 4 Whimbrel,  16 Arctic Tern, 7 'Commic' Tern.

08-05-2019 Dunlin - arctica, NP Brian Lancastle

New Passage/Northwick:
2 Mute Swan, 1 Common Sandpiper, many Swallows and House Martins, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 1 Reed Bunting.

Northwick Warth/Pilning wetland:
1 Greylag Goose, 1 Mute Swan, 42 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 1 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 2 Lapwing, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 16 Ringed Plover, 4 Curlew, 3 Whimbrel, 55 Dunlin, 3 Dunlin - arctica, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Swift, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 1 Reed Bunting

Severn Beach:
1 Greylag Goose, 4 Common Scoter, 3 Grey Plover, 10 Ringed Plover, 5 Whimbrel, 6 Knot, 12 Dunlin,  1 Short-eared Owl, 2 Swift

NORTH SOMERSET

Pill - Allotments:
1 Sparrowhawk.

Clevedon-Yeo:
135 Shelduck, 2 Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Egret, 1 Little Grebe, 4 Coot, 82 Oystercatcher, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Lapwing, 1 Sanderling (Yeo), 1 Little Stint (Channel View Sea Wall), 30 Dunlin, 34 Whimbrel, 3 Curlew, 4 Redshank 20 Swift (Wain’s Hill), 14 Skylark, 350 Swallow, 75 House Martin, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Willow Warbler, 9 Blackcap, 18 Whitethroat, 10 Reed Warbler, 2 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 5 Yellow Wagtail, 1 White Wagtail, 5 Linnet, 2 Bullfinch, 3 Reed Bunting.

Backwell Lake:
50++ House Martin - feeding over the lake in the rain.

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Pomarine Skua - dark phase spooned - upriver early.

Weston-Super-Mare - Anchor Head:
1 Arctic Skua - upriver.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
154 Stock Dove - Marshfield Farm, 9 Corn Bunting  - singing (m).

Chew Stoke:
1 Siskin (m) - a first for the garden

Bishop Sutton:
08-05-2019 Wren Bishop Sutton, Bob Brewer
RESERVOIRS

Barrow Gurney Tanks:
1 Sanderling, 7 Common Sandpiper, 2 Black Tern, 7 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow Wagtail.

Chew Valley Lake

Stratford:
3 Little Egret, 1 Dunlin, 1 Redshank,  2 Common Sandpiper, 11 Common Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 29 Black Tern – showing ridiculously well from the hide at times, ‘inside’ the small reed-bed, 1 Cuckoo (m)

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Roger Bingham, Bob Brewer, Ken Hall, MJ, Brian Lancastle, Paul Milsom, Dave Nevitt, Rob Laughton, Pat Richards, Tony Scott, Larry Sweetland, Mike Thomas, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG