Saturday 13 July 2019

13-07-19 Saturday - Nightjar

Temp 15 to 23 ℃. Bit cooler and cloudier, fairly still but some decent sunshine at times

Nightjar
Great White Egret
Red Kite
Oystercatcher
Yellow-legged Gull
Grasshopper Warbler
Spotted Flycatcher


BRISTOL

13-7-19 Peregrine in Avon Gorge (Alan Daniells)
Avon Gorge:
Peregrines

Bishopston:
75 c Lesser Black-backed Gull - anting over the house, 1 Herring Gull with them, no small gulls with them.

Clifton Village:
Tawny Owl calling

13-07-2019 Grey Heron - juv Easville Park (Martin Tayler)
Eastville Park:
4 Grey Heron - juv

Redland Garden:
2 Herring Gull, 2 Collared Dove, 4 Swift, 1 juv Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 House Sparrow

13-7-19 Green Woodpecker in Canford Cemetery (Rod Holbrook)
Canford Cemetery:
1 juv Green Woodpecker

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Buzzard, Kestrel, Peregrine, Raven. Lots of Reed Warbler and Reed Bunting families on Lagoon 3

Orchard Pools:
2 Mallard, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Moorhen, 1 j Raven (Wainright's Towers), 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler

Little Stoke:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Dozen Swift - over the garden tea time.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Warth:
8 Gadwall  - inc brood of 7, 8 Egret species - S/W (very high & distant), 1 Sparrowhawk, 34 Coot, 50 Redshank, 1 Peregrine,  6 Reed Warbler - inc brood of 4.

Weston Woods, BS 22:
1 Tawny Owl, 1 Nightjar heard overnight

Banwell, Winthill:
1 m Pheasant, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, 2 m + j Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Chiffchaff, 4 Dunnock, 8 House Sparrow, 9 Chaffinch, 3 2m + f Bullfinch, 5 Greenfinch, 10 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Lansdown, Further Slate Wood:
1 Red Kite 13.32, 1 Grasshopper Warbler still reeling, 2 Spotted Flycatcher families

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Oystercatcher, 3 Common Sandpiper

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Egyptian Geese (Dam), 1 Great White Egret, 3 Oystercatcher (Stratford), 1 Common Sandpiper, (HG), 4 Green Sandpiper (HP), 1 ad Yellow-legged Gull (Dam)

13-7-19 Reed Warbler at CVL (David Hughes)
Chew Valley Ringing Station:
42 broods of Reed Warbler ringed so far - more to come.

Reports: Alice Kirk, Derek Angell, Nancy Barrett, CVRS, Alan Daniels, Barry Dursley, Nick Hawkridge, Rod Holbrook, David Hughes, Lois Pryce, Adam Rawson, Chris Stone, Martin Tayler,  Brian Thompson, John Thorogood, Chris Vines, Robert Wellsted
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