Saturday 3 August 2019

03-08-19 Saturday - Avocet

Avonmouth temperature 15 - 22 °C. Cloudier, though some sun. Muggy

Avocet
Mediterranean Gull
Common Tern
Yellow Wagtail
Spotted Flycatcher 

BRISTOL

Sea Mills:
34 Mallard, 9 Common Sandpiper, 82 BH Gull, 5 ad + 7 juv LBB Gull

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station, WeBS:
34 Shelduck (3 broods), 1 Tufted Duck with 7 ducklings, 1 Avocet (Pillhead Gout), 3 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 16 Turnstone, 16 Dunlin, 14 Common Sandpiper - record count, 22 Redshank, 1 Greenshank (Shepperdine)

Bridleway to Shore:
1 Spotted Flycatcher - early

Pillhead Gout:
4 Lapwing, 16 Dunlin, 8 Common Sandpiper, 23 Redshank, 200+ Black-headed Gull and 2 Yellow Wagtail over to SW.

Littleton Brick Pits:
4 Canada Geese (3 juvs), 1 Green Sandpiper, 5 Common Tern (3ad, 2juvs), 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 50+ Swallows, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 9 Pied Wagtail

New Passage:
80 Turnstone, 200 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, trickle of Swallows east

Frampton Cotterell, Mayshill, Says Court Farm:
100-200 House Sparrow

Yate, Rodford:
50 House Sparrow

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:

Tufted Duck broods 3 - 3 - 1

Uphill, WeBS:

24 Canada Goose, 15 Shelduck, 52 Mallard, 5 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 43 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 270 Redshank, 550 BH Gull, few Herring gull, 42 LBB Gull including imms, 100's Corvids, plenty Swallow, 1 Whitethroat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
3 Quail

Compton Dando:
2 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher

Newton St Loe:
6 Mute Swan, 54 Mallard, 3 Grey Heron (1ad, 2 juv), 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Moorhen, 6 Coot,  4 BH Gull, 4 Feral Pigeon on lake, 4 Stock Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 2/4 Green Woodpecker, 250 Corvid, 4 Raven, 40 Swallow, 30 House Martin, 4 Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, 3 Nuthatch, 50 House Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch

Bishop Sutton:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
2 Egyptian Goose, 1 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret

Chew Valley Lake:
1 Black Swan still, 1 Shelduck (Herriott's, lake side), 11 Shoveler, 43 Teal, lots Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 20 Cormorant, juv Marsh Harrier around the southern end, 1 Lapwing, 1 ad sum plum Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Green Sandpiper, 3rd-year Yellow-legged Gull on the wooden jetty by Moreton Cottage, 1 Stock Dove, just one Swift, 15 Sand Martin, 12+ Swallows (Dam), 100 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler (Hollow Brook), 2 juv Grey Wagtail

Out of Avon

3-8-19 Black-crowned Night Heron, Pitville Park (Roy Kinchin)
Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Pitville Park:
1 Black-crowned Night Heron again

Reports: Jane Cumming, Ian Dickie, Thomas @gardenbirder, John Griffiths, Rob Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, Mike Jackson, Andrew Jordan, Roy Kinchin, Andy Middleton, Jean Oliver, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Tony Scott, Chris Stone
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