Thursday 25 July 2019

25-07-19 Thursday - Spotted Flycatcher

Nationally [and in parts of Europe]  a day of record-breaking heat.
Here it was just baking hot, climbing to 33.2 °C

Quail 
Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull
Spotted Flycatcher (apparent breeding success)
Yellow Wagtail

25-07-19 Spotted Flycatcher, Newton St Loe (Wayne Tucker)

BRISTOL

Filton:
8 Swift, 5 Raven - a  family party 'flying into and through large pine next door, putting up the local birds: a young family party? – one making strange high ‘haven’t got the hang of this cronking’ sound…'

Fishponds Road:
2 Swift

Finzels Reach:
1 juv f Peregrine (attacking  pigeon)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
A flock of 11 Cormorant flew high over to East (mainly juvs.), 5 Lesser Whitethroat (2 family groups; 3x Lag 3, 2x Lag1), 4 Mistle Thrush on Lagoon 1 (probably a family that bred here), 1 Yellow Wagtail


25-07-19 Mediterranean Gull, Pilning Wetland (Chris Stone)
Pilning wetland:
101 Canada Goose,1 Greylag, 5 Teal, 1 Great White Egret, 22 Lapwing, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 70+ Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Snipe,  75 Redshank, 70+ Dunlin, 5 Turnstone,  2 ad Mediterranean Gull , c500 BHG, 1 Raven, 4 Yellow Wagtail


25-07-19 Sparrowhawk with Starling prey, Yate (Chris Teague)
[The Starling lived to tell the tale...]
Yate:
A Sparrowhawk caught a Starling in the garden and started plucking it. I had to go out and thought it would just carry its prey off. Very surprised when Sparrowhawk flew one way and the Starling the other. I thought it was dead!

NORTH SOMERSET

No reports

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
24-07-19 Quail calling, one possibly two from Downs Road, Marshfield 9.25pm very distant.

25.07.19, Swift, Keynsham (TalkingtoBears)
Keynsham ST6567:
Garden: 7 Swift


25-07-19 another Spotted Flycatcher photo, Newton St Loe (Wayne Tucker)
Newton St Loe:
6 Mute Swan, 17 Mallard, 3 Buzzard, 1 Moorhen, 4 Coot, 3 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher,  1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel,  3 Raven, 200 Corvid, 100+ Jackdaw, 10 Rook, 15 Carrion Crow, 2 Coal Tit ,50+ Swallow, 50+ House Martin, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch , 1 Treecreeper, 3 Song Thrush, 5 Spotted Flycatcher inc 3 juveniles, 30 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 20 Goldfinch, 3 Bullfinch, 1 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
Lots of Swallow and House Martin in the evening, well over 40 Pied Wagtail about

25-7-19 Oystercatcher, Heron's Green (Rob Hargreaves)
Heron's Green:
1 Oystercatcher, 1 Common Sandpiper, usual 3rd-year Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Chiffchaff

East Shore:
1 juv Marsh Harrier

Stratford:
1 Black Swan, Oystercatcher again, 1 Lapwing, 30 Swallow

25-7-19 one of the two Great White Egrets going to roost at the back of Herriott's (Rob Hargreaves)
Herriott's inc Pool:
9 Tufted Ducklings, 1 ad 1 juv Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 7 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 1 juv Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Grey Wagtail

Natural England has just published its proposals for the coastal path thru our area.  


There are maps and lots of reading......  Whether this will ever come about is anyone's guess, the proposed costs are enormous - £200,000 for the area around Clevedon alone!!

Reports: Paul Bowerman, Andy Davis, Rob Hargreaves, Pete Hazelwood, Tim Osborne, Lois Pryce, Aravind Ramesh,  Richard Scantlebury, TalkingtoBears, Christopher and Anita Teague, Wayne Tucker, Chris Stone,  opsbirding