Tuesday 28 May 2019

28-05-19 Tuesday

Temperature 10 - 18°C - overcast in morning, clearing to sunshine and high cloud later on

Red Kite
Cuckoo
Spotted Flycatcher

Two signs of late spring....
29-05-19 newly-fledged Blue Tit, Bristol (Martin Tayler)
28-05-19 Swift, Herriotts Pool, CVL (Bob Brewer)

BRISTOL
No reports

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE


28-05-19 Kestrel, Oldbury Power Station (Chris Snook)

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 4 Ringed Plover, Cuckoo calling, 1 Kestrel, 4 + Whitethroat, 8 Reed Warbler, 3 Sedge Warbler

28-05-19 Chiffchaff, Oldbury Power Station (Chris Snook)

Also, an unexpected encounter:

28-05-19 an intrepid tree-top mouse, Oldbury Power Station (Chris Snook)

Thornbury: 
Red Kite over A38 between Thornbury and Falfield

NORTH SOMERSET

Easton-in-Gordano:
Male Great Spotted Woodpecker on squirrel-proof nut feeder feeding juvenile clinging on to bottom of feeder where no nuts available

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
St John's Church - a check today has confirmed that all three of the recently-fledged juveniles are already confident on the wing and with landing

Haycombe:
Red Kite,  1 Spotted Flycatcher  (end of Haycombe Lane).

Family of 4 Ravens also in area

Batheaston, Northend, Solsbury Hill, BOC Walk:
2 Buzzard, 60 Gulls, 7 Swift, 1 Jay, 4 Magpie, 6 Skylark, 1 Sand Martin, 8 Swallow, 20 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Chaffinch, 7 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

28-05-19 Reed Warbler, CVL (George Stacey)
Hollowbrook:
1 Whitethroat

28-05-19 Ravens vs Buzzard, Herriotts Pool, CVL (Bob Brewer)
Heron's Green:
28-05-19 Little Grebe family, Heron's Green, CVL (Bob Brewer)

28-05-19 Wigeon, Herriotts Pool, CVL (George Stacey)
Herriott's inc Pool:
2 drake Wigeon.

Out of Avon:


28-05-19 Black-winged Stilt, Catcott Lows, Somerset (George Stacey)
2 Black-winged Stilt still at Catcott Lows


Reports: Bob Brewer, Judy Copeland, Robert Hargreaves, Glen Maddison, Adam Rawson, Chris Snook, George Stacey, BUPP