Wednesday, 10 July 2019

10-07-19 Wednesday - Gropper

Hot - hot and more - - nice breeze though

Little Ringed Plover
Yellow-legged Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Red Kite
Grasshopper Warbler


10-07-2019 Little-ringed Plover - juv CVL (Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 13 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 4 Swift, 6 Magpie, 1 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 3 Wren, 8 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 32 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 1 Greenfinch, 6 Goldfinch

Avon Gorge & Downs – Sea Walls, Gully: 09-07-19
2 Grey Heron, 1 Raven, a party of 30 Swifts

10-07-2019 Peregrine -juv Finzels Reach (Ian Loats)
Finzels Reach:
Juv doing well.

Southmead:
55 Carrion Crow

M32:
Peregrine targeting Jackdaw tonight 21:00

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick / Pilning Wetlands
1 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan + 2 cygnets, c.30 Shelduck + a creche of 10 young & couple with 2 more young, 12 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Cormorant, 6 Moorhen, 7 Coot, 5 Oystercatcher, 2 Lapwing, (a possible Ruff with BH Gulls), 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, 30 Swallow, 10 House Martin 160 Black-headed Gull, 2 Reed Warbler, 6 Pied Wagtail, 1 Greenfinch, 3 Linnet.

Cribbs Causeway:
1 Ring-necked Parakeet - being chased all over the place by Magpies

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Kilkenny Place
1 Coal tit, 4 Long-tailed tit

Worle:
2 Red Kite - over the garden

Sand Point:
4 Whimbrel - heading south


BELOW M4 & BANES

Lansdown
Grasshopper Warbler  - still giving it his best song.

10-07-2019 Sand Martin chicks, Bath (Robert Hargreaves)
Bath - Windsor Bridge:
2 Mute Swan, 1 Sparrowhawk, 50+ Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Magpie, 3 Sand Martin + 4 chicks, 3 Wren, 4 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 4 Goldfinch

Bath - Twerton: video link  - Tits

10-07-2019 juv tit fest Twerton (Maureen Parfitt)
Bishops Sutton:
4 Collared Dove

Chew Magna:
1 Red Kite - east of the village,

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
3 Lapwing, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redshank - ad,

Chew Valley Lake
2 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 5 Buzzard, 11 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gull - 3rd year & 2nd year, 4 Jay, 20+ Sand Martin - going south, 12 House Martin, 10 Swallow, 7 Reed Bunting.

Woodford:
126 Great-crested Grebe - all together

Heron's Green:
4 Little  Grebe - inc 2 chicks, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper, 4 Sedge Warbler, 3 Goldfinch,

Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Hobby, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler,

10-07-2019 Black-tailed Godwit CVL (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's inc Pool:
2 Wigeon - m&f, 3 Shelduck, 8 Lapwing, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Redshank

Reports: Derek Angell, John Budd, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, Dominic Godfrey, Robert Hargreaves, Ian Loats, Jon Mortin, Ben Ofield, Maureen Parfitt, Dee Pope, Lois Pryce, Dean Reeves, Ian Stapp, 
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