Wednesday 19 June 2019

19-06-19 Wednesday - Hobby

14 to 18 C. No sun. Brightest late afternoon. 1 mm rain fell in Bristol  - warmest day of the week

Mediterranean Gull 
Hobby

BRISTOL

Finzells Reach:
Peregrine - juv. Doing very well by the size of that crop.
- below:  Great Black-backed Gull making short work of a feral pigeon.

19-06-2019 Juv Peregrine Finzells Reach (Ian Loats)

19-06-2019 Great Black-backed Gull - feral pigeon prey Finzells Reach (Ian Loats)

19-06-2019 Great Black-backed Gull - feral pigeon prey Finzells Reach (Ian Loats)
Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
1 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 14 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 6 Swift, 8 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 4 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap, 3 Wren, 25 Starling, 4 Robin, 25 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch.

Stockwood Open Spaces:
3 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, a few Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

19-06-2019 Great Spotted Woodpecker (j) New Passage (Lisa Presland)

New Passage/Northwick/ Pilning wetland:
4 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, c.20 Shelduck, 2 Gadwall, 5 Mallard duckling, 5 Tufted Duck, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Cormorant, 1 Moorhen, c.10 Oystercatcher, 4 Ringed Plover, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker - juv, 1 Kestrel, 1 juv. Carrion Crow being fed by parents on saltmarsh, 2 Skylark, c.35 Swallow incl. juv. on power line, c.15 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Blackcap, c.40 Starling, 1 Song Thrush, flocks of House Sparrows up New Passage Road easily amounting to 50+, 5 juv. Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Bullfinch (dropping into house garden), 2 Greenfinch, c. 10 Linnet, 1 Reed Bunting


Severn Approach Business Park:
1 family of Bullfinch - very noisy.

NORTH SOMERSET

Ham Green - on the balcony feeder:
1 Nuthatch - short video

19-06-2019 juv Mediterranean Gull PW (Chris Stone)
Portbury Wharf:
3 Mediterranean Gull - two of them first-summer birds.

Portishead:
1 Cormorant - 1st in ages at H&W Marina.
Herring Gull - 4 nest worth of juv exploring the roofs in Merchant Sq.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
1 Little Owl, lots of Corn Bunting and Yellowhammer singing

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

19-06-2019 Cuckoo Moreton (Bri Thompson)

Moreton:
1 Curlew - over, 1 Cuckoo, several Hobby.


19-06-2019 Hobby CVL Moreton (Bri Thompson)

Stratford Lane
19-06-2019 Stratford Lane - New plumage (Bri Thompson)

Stratford:
1 track makeover

Reports: John Budd, John Clark, Paul Francis, Robert Hargreaves, Ian Loats, Paul Milsom, Lisa Presland, Lois Pryce, Dean Reeves, Nigel Sluman, Chris Stone, Bri Thompson,
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