Garganey
Great White Egret
Red Kite
Temminck's Stint
Black Tern
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| 18-05-19 Temminck's Stint, Pilning Wetland (Bri Thompson) |
Small parties of Swift (first of year in each place) reported today from St Anne's, Fishponds, Withywood, Coombe Dingle and Yate
BRISTOL
Bishop Road to Horfield Common
1 Grey Heron, 1 Herring Gull, 4 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Jay, 6 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow, 6 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 4 Wren, 11 Starling, 7 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 32 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 3 Greenfinch, 9 Goldfinch
Also 1 Palmate Newt
Fishponds:
The bird resembling an Italian Sparrow still present on Huyton Road today
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
1 Tawny Owl perched in open by lake, early morning, being scolded by other birds
Shepperdine:
2 Knot, c5 Dunlin, c15 Ringed Plover.
Pilning wetland:
1 Temminck's Stint (4th patch record)
Severn Beach:
1 Greenshank, 9 Grey Plover, 22 Sanderling, 71 Ringed Plover, 35 Dunlin (1 ssp arctica), 4 Swift
M4 nr Bradley Stoke:
17th - 1 Red Kite heading for Bradley Stoke
NORTH SOMERSET
Yatton:
Wemberham Lane - 1 Peregrine, 7 singing Reed Warbler.
( Reed Warbler populations must be high - several were singing from very small patches of reed)
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
Female TX left the Bath Peregrines nest box this morning and has been recovered from the ground. She appears healthy and is uninjured, but is way too young for such an adventure. There is a plan for her reintroduction.....
Afternoon update:
TX appears to have weathered her 160ft [way too] early fledging without injury. To be safe, she's currently under the care of the Bird of Prey Hospital @ICBPNewent, our SW area specialist advisors. Once given the all clear she will be returned to the Bath nest box.
RESERVOIRS
Chew Valley Lake
Hollowbrook:
Parking Area 2 to Hollow Brook (and back): 1 Buzzard, Coot with 2 juvenile Hollow Brook bridge, 6+ Wood Pigeon, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit entering nest box by Hollow Brook bridge, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, abundance of Reed Warbler, 8+ Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 6+ Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 10+ Blackbird, 5+ Robin, 1 Goldfinch, 5+ Reed Bunting
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| 18-05-19 another shot of the Temminck's Stint, Pilning Wetland (Karle Burford) |
1 Temminck's Stint (4th patch record)
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| 18-05-19 Green Woodpecker, The Glen, New Passage (David Hughes) |
Severn Beach:
1 Greenshank, 9 Grey Plover, 22 Sanderling, 71 Ringed Plover, 35 Dunlin (1 ssp arctica), 4 Swift
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| 18-05-19 Sanderling, Severn Beach (Matt Hobbs) |
M4 nr Bradley Stoke:
17th - 1 Red Kite heading for Bradley Stoke
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| 18-05-19 Bullfinch, Severn Beach (Rod Holbrook) |
NORTH SOMERSET
Yatton:
Wemberham Lane - 1 Peregrine, 7 singing Reed Warbler.
( Reed Warbler populations must be high - several were singing from very small patches of reed)
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath:
Female TX left the Bath Peregrines nest box this morning and has been recovered from the ground. She appears healthy and is uninjured, but is way too young for such an adventure. There is a plan for her reintroduction.....
Afternoon update:
TX appears to have weathered her 160ft [way too] early fledging without injury. To be safe, she's currently under the care of the Bird of Prey Hospital @ICBPNewent, our SW area specialist advisors. Once given the all clear she will be returned to the Bath nest box.
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| 18-05-19 Peregrine fledgling in A&E (BUPP) |
RESERVOIRS
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| 18-05-19 Great White Egret, Herriotts Pool, CVL (Bob Brewer) |
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| 18-05-19 Hobby getting unwanted attention, CVL (Raoul Chandrasakera) |
Parking Area 2 to Hollow Brook (and back): 1 Buzzard, Coot with 2 juvenile Hollow Brook bridge, 6+ Wood Pigeon, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit entering nest box by Hollow Brook bridge, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, abundance of Reed Warbler, 8+ Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 6+ Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 10+ Blackbird, 5+ Robin, 1 Goldfinch, 5+ Reed Bunting
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| 18-05-19 Hobby, CVL (Raoul Chandrasakera) |
up to 6 Hobby, 3 Black Tern, lots Swift, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Garden Warbler
Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Garganey still, plus 1 Great White Egret. 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Black Tern perched on buoy lakeside, many Reed Warbler
Chew Valley Ringing Station:
2 Reed Warblers controlled this morning were ringed here 'in the nest' at about a week old in May and June last summer. Now back and hopefully breeding themselves.
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| 18-05-19 Common Sandpiper, Herriotts Pool, CVL (Bob Brewer) |
Reports: Jonathan Angell, Bob Brewer, John Budd, Karle Burford, Raoul Chandrasakera, Neil Delaney, Ian Dickie, William Earp, John Griffiths, Matt Hobbs, Rod Holbrook, David Hughes, Trevor Riddle, Carol Rushton and Stephen Curtis,,Gill Sapsed, Helen Strong, Larry Sweetland, Bri Thompson, Gordon Youdale, BUPP, CVRS. opsbirding,, TBOSG
