26-6-19 Wednesday - Yellow-legged Gull

Cloudy in the morning but increasingly sunny and breezy in the afternoon. Temperature 16-20 °C

Little Bustard still at Slimbridge but increasingly elusive
Green Sandpiper
Yellow-legged Gull
Redstart
Wheatear

26-6-19 Grey Heron in Stoke Park (Patrick Richards)
Cold shoulder or just the bad weather

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
07:30 A rather unusual sight of a juv Peregrine being harried by a very aggressive ad Herring Gull at eye level along Surrey Road, Bishopston.

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
1 Herring Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 9 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Swift, 4 Magpie, 4 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Wren, 11 Starling, 5 Blackbird, 2 Robin, 20 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch

Walk around Stoke Park and Duchess Lake:
5 Canada Goose, 40 Mallard, 1 Gray Heron, 1 Cormorant, 1 Buzzard, 7 Moorhen, 3 Coot, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 7 Woodpigeon, 5 Swift,2 Kestrel, 6 Magpie, 42 Jackdaw,  3 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 2 House Martin, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 White Throat, 2 Wren, 3m 1f Blackbird, 2 Robin, 1 Song Thrush, 7 House Sparrow, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 1m Reed Bunting.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

26-6-19 Kestrel, female and its juvenile, Aust Warth (Paul Dunham)

Aust Warth:
Juvenile Kestrels successfully fledged.

Northwick Warth:
1 m Teal, 1 Common Sandpiper, 12 BH Gull, 1 f Wheatear

Chipping Sodbury Common:
6 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 2 m/f Redstart, 3 Reed Bunting

NORTH SOMERSET

26-6-19 Black-tailed Godwit at Portbury Wharf (Chris Stone)

Portbury Wharf:
2 sum plum Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Green Sandpiper

Backwell Lake:
3 adult Canada Goose and 6 goslings, 14 adult Mute Swan + 1 gosling (previously 3 so 2 predated, 1 Buzzard, LBB Gull, 2 Kingfisher, 12 Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Reed Warbler

26-06-19 Little Egret, Weston Airfield  (Paul Gregory)

Weston Airfield:
Little Egret, Reed and Sedge Warblers in good numbers.

26-06-19 rather smart male House Sparrow, Weston Airfield (Paul Gregory)

BELOW M4 & BANES

Nothing reported

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:
107 Canada Geese, male Wigeon, 14 Teal, 5 Shoveler, 2 2nd-yr Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Hobby, 4 Swift, 1 Jackdaw (juvenile), 8 Sand Martin, 2 Pied Wagtail

26-06-19 Juvenile Jackdaw, CVL (Talkingtobirds)

Reports: John Budd, Ken Carruthers, Mark Coller, Paul Dunham, Paul Gregory, Aravind Ramesh, Patrick Richards, Keith Vinicombe, Talkingtobears, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG