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
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| 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
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
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.
Keynsham ST6567:
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
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| 25-07-19 Mediterranean Gull, Pilning Wetland (Chris Stone) |
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
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| 25-07-19 Sparrowhawk with Starling prey, Yate (Chris Teague) [The Starling lived to tell the tale...] |
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.
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| 25.07.19, Swift, Keynsham (TalkingtoBears) |
Garden: 7 Swift
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
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| 25-07-19 another Spotted Flycatcher photo, Newton St Loe (Wayne Tucker) |
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
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| 25-7-19 Oystercatcher, Heron's Green (Rob Hargreaves) |
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
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25-7-19 one of the two Great White Egrets going to roost at the back of Herriott's (Rob Hargreaves)
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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
