Tuesday 2 July 2019

02-07-19 Tuesday - Black-tailed Godwit

Temp 13 to 21 ℃. Wall to wall sun, well some cloud then

Black-tailed Godwit
Yellow-legged Gull

Marsh Tit

BRISTOL

2-7-19 juv Peregrine from Finzel's Reach at the vet's (Rich Scantlebury)
Finzels Reach:
juv Peregrine - having fledged early on - went swimming today and ended up in a box

02-07-2019 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Rich Scantlebury)
back from the vets and on the roof of King Orchard House - where it's parents reacquired it.

02-07-2019 The Swimming Peregrine Finzels Reach - close (Rich Scantlebury)

St George:
Bullfinch pair still.

02-07-2019 Bullfinch St George (Lee Gardiner)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
15 Shelduck plus two broods/creches both of 10 juveniles, 2 Tufted Duck - (m) plus 2 juveniles, 3 Little Egret, 4 Curlew, 1 Dunlin, 1 Tawny Owl, 11 Swift heading determinedly NE, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker - family party of 4, 1 Cetti's Warbler

02-07-2019 Great Spotted Woodpecker (juv) NP-NW (Lisa Presland)

New Passage/Northwick:
2 Mute Swan and cygnets, Shelduck and 7 ducklings, 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Greenfinch,

Almondsbury Interchange:
100+ Swift - shame the lights changed!

Wickwar - Lower Woods, BOC Tuesday Walk:
1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 5 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Swift, 1 Jay, 2 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Coal Tit, 1 Marsh Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Swallow, 4 House Martin, 6 Chiffchaff, 8 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrest, 11 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 3 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 6 Linnet, 3 Goldfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Battery Point:
2 Raven - one may have a metal ring

02-07-2019 Oystercatcher Kingston Seymour (Ian Loats)

Clevedon-Yeo, Channel View Farm
5 Oystercatcher - 1 putting up a sterling defence of her chicks out on the mud flat against the female & juvenile Kestrel, 1 Lapwing protecting nest, 6 Curlew, 7 Swallow, 5 Linnet, 6 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

02-07-2019 Red-legged Partridge Marshfield (Robert Hargreaves)
Marshfield:
1 Red-legged Partridge, 1 Pheasant, 1 Buzzard, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Collared Dove, 10 Swift, 1 Kestrel, 100 Rook, 1 Raven, 8 Skylark, 4 House Martin, 2 Swallow, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 4 Whitethroat, 12 House Sparrow, 1 Pied Wagtail, 25 Linnet, 8 Goldfinch, 4 Corn Bunting, 4 Yellowhammer

02-07-2019 Yellowhammer and Corn Bunting Marshfield (Robert Hargreaves)
Newton St Loe:
2 Swallow

Stanton Prior:
6 Swallow

Combe Hay:

Red Kite

Bishop Sutton:

4 Collared Dove

RESERVOIRS

02-07-2019 Black-tailed Godwit 28 Herriott's Pool (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake
6 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon, 6 Little Grebe (4 adult 2 chicks HG), 124 Great-crested Grebe (all together lake), 5 Grey Heron, 1 juv Sparrowhawk, 1 ad female Marsh Harrier, 1 Red Kite, 4 Buzzard, 6 Lapwing, 28 m Black-tailed Godwit on Herriott's Pool all in really smart summer plumage, 1 ad Redshank, 1st-summer Common Gull, 12 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 2cy Yellow-legged Gull, 50+ Swift, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Hobby, 7 Jay (some chicks calling), 30+ Swallow & House Martins

OUT OF AREA

01-07-2019 Black-crowned Night Heron Cheltenham (Chris Teague)

Cheltenham - Pittville Park - 01-07-2019
1 Night Heron - on show 20:15 to 20:45

Reports: Derek Angell, Rebecca Brown (vet), Bryan Cook, Lee Gardiner, Robert Hargreaves, Simon Harris, Nick Hawkridge, David Howes, Ian Loats, Andy Middleton, Lisa Presland, Adam Rawson, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Chris Teague, Keith Vinicombe, 
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