Tuesday 9 July 2019

09-07-19 Tuesday - Great White Egret

Warm - hazy sunshine

Tawny Owl
Marsh Tit
Great White Egret
Hobby
Red Kite
Grasshopper Warbler
Stock Dove
Yellow-legged Gull

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
1 House Sparrow ventured into the garden - 1st for years.

09-07-2019 Yellow-legged Gull - or is it a Lesser Black-backed Gull? Temple Meads Station (Mark Savage)

Temple Meads Station:
1 Yellow-legged Gull - or is it Lesser Black-backed Gull? (ed note 10/07/2019 'Mr Gull' says LB)

09-07-2019 Peregrine Avon Gorge (Raoul Chandrasakera)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Yate - Kingsgate Park:
1 Red Kite  - circling

09-07-2019 Hobby Layhill (Adam Rawson)

Layhill:
1 Hobby - over, very high.

Northwick Warth / Pilning Wetlands:
1 Little Egret, 5 Lapwing, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 18 Dunlin, 47 Redshank, 7 Raven, a Stonechat, 2 Yellow Wagtail.

09-07-2019 Common Scoter Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)

Severn Beach:
Common Scoter (m), 4 Little Egret, 45+ Curlew.

NORTH SOMERSET

09-07-2019 Green Woodpecker - Mistle Thrush Ham Green (Paul Milsom)
Ham Green:
4 Green Woodpecker - inc juv, 1 Mistle Thrush.

Portbury Warth:
Gadwall - brood of 4, 12 Black-tailed Godwit - sum plum, 1 Mediterranean Gull - ad, 1 Yellow-legged Gull - ad.

Cleeve - Goblin Combe, BOC Tuesday Walk:
4 Buzzard, 1 Stock Dove, 9 Woodpigeon, 1 Tawny Owl, 4 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 2 Magpie, 3 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 3 Coal Tit, 3 Marsh Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 6 Swallow, 2 Long-tailed Tit, 6 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 6 Goldcrest, 8 Wren, 5 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 4 Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 7 Robin, 4 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 2 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Bleadon - STW:
3 Great White Egret - headed towards Berrow.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Lansdown:
1 Grasshopper Warbler - for the 4th day,  reeling from the scrub, 2 Bullfinch (f&m).

Compton Dando:
1 Red Kite, 4 Swallow, 2 Whitethroat, 10 Linnet incl.sev. juv, 4 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Common Sandpiper

09-07-2019 Reed Bunting CVL Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake
1 Black Swan, 2 Egyptian Geese, 3 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 1 Wigeon (m) 13 Teal, 4 Pochard, 125 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (f), 6 Buzzard, 8 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper - adult, 12 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Hobby, 4 Jay, 50 Sand Martin - autumn migration is underway, 50+ House Martin, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 7 Reed Bunting.

09-07-2019 Sedge Warbler CVL (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Yellow-legged Gull - 3rd-year, 4 Sedge Warbler,

Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Goldfinch.

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Leucistic Herring Gull - DEAD by the side of the road, 1 Kingfisher,  1 Kestrel,

Reports: Nick Beamson, Paul Bowerman, Pete Brain, Raoul Chandrasakera, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, Paul Milsom, Adam Rawson, Peter Rock, Mark Savage, Ian Stapp, Chris Stone, Keith Vinicombe, Keith Williams
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