Tuesday 6 August 2019

06-08-19 Tuesday - Hobby

Showers on and off - some quite heavy - bit of sun

Great White Egret
Yellow Wagtail
Redstart
Hobby
Kingfisher
Marsh Harrier

BRISTOL

06-08-2019 Dunnock - Goldfinch Coombe Dingle (Pete Bunnis)
Coombe Dingle Garden - 5 to 6 pm:
Woodpigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, juvs of Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Robin, Dunnock, 2 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

06-08-2019 Great Black-backed Gull OPS (Pete Hazelwood)
Oldbury Power Station:
5 Sparrowhawk - inc 3 juvs (wheezing squawks from trees) - record count, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Great Black-backed Gull - brute of a juv not long out of the nest

Shepperdine
2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Redstart (m)

Oldbury Yacht Club - to Severn Bridge and return.
30 Canada Goose, 8 Wigeon, 1 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard. 3 Oystercatcher, 5 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Curlew, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Dunlin, 8 Common Sandpiper, 1 Kestrel,  30 Carrion Crow, 3 Swallow, 3 Skylark 30 Starling, 1 Wheatear, 2 Pied Wagtail - ad and juv, 30 Linnets, 5 Goldfinch,

Northwick Warth:
185 Canada Goose, 2 Greylag Goose, 4 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 14 Lapwing, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Dunlin, 62 Redshank, 1 Kestrel.

Severn Beach:
1 Tree Pipit - flew over

06-08-2019 Mallard Bridgeyate - Siston (Pete Bunnis)
Bridgeyate to Siston - BOC Tue Walk
12 Mallard - inc 11 juv, 4 Buzzard, 4 Moorhen, 4 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 17 Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Peregrine, 3 Magpie, 9 Jackdaw, 6 Carrion Crow - 2 with leucistic feathers showing, 1 Coal Tit, 7 Blue Tit - inc family party, 3 Great Tit, 3 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 11 Chiffchaff, 4 Wren, 4 Starling, 4 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 4 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Uphill &STW:
3 Common Sandpiper, 25 Swift, 5 Common Whitethroat, 1 Yellow Wagtail - heard only going over.

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bishop Sutton:
5 Collared Dove.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
3 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv, 1 Common Sandpiper, 10 Great Black-backed Gull - inc a juv.

06-08-2019 Dunlin H Green CVL (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake
134 Canada Goose, 71 Mute Swan, 153+ Great Crested Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 6 Buzzard, 4 Common Sandpiper, 6 Green Sandpiper, 12+ Great Black-backed Gull, 15 Swift, 60+ House Martin and 20+ Sand Martin - most at Herriott's, 9 Pied Wagtail, 4 Reed Bunting.

Dam:
1 Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper,
06-08-2019 Ringed Plover - Common Sandpiper Dam CVL (George Stacey)

Blue Bowl:
13 Swallows - all on wires, 8 House Sparrow.

06-08-2019 Common Sandpiper with Pied Wagtail &  Chaffinch CVL  H Green wall (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
2 Wigeon, 44 Gadwall, 4 Little Grebe, 1 Dunlin - came in with a rain shower, went off later, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Sedge Warbler, 5 Chaffinch.

Stratford:
1 Black Swan - in the bay

06-08-2019 Reed Warbler Moreton CVL (Ian Stapp)
Moreton:
Great White Egret - bank, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby - over North Shore then flew across, 4 Jay, 1 Raven, 2 Cetti's, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 Reed Warbler, 2 Wren, 2 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 1 Bullfinch, 2 Goldfinch.

Herriott's inc Pool:
1 Shelduck, 14 Shoveler, 2 Little Egret, 4 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 7 Jackdaw, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Reports: Pete Bunniss, Andy Davis, Paddy Doyle, Nick Hawkridge, Adrian Hockey, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, 
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