Friday 16 August 2019

16-08-19 Friday - Arctic Tern

Totterdown, Bristol Temp 15 - 17 °C. Pretty cool, rain heavier as day went on, 12mm so far

Little Ringed Plover
Arctic Tern

Great White Egret

16-8-19 Common and Arctic Tern at CVL (Brian Thompson)
Note white in Arctic Tern's secondaries and black bill
BRISTOL
16-8-19 Aberrant House Sparrow in Bristol (Allan Chard)
Bristol garden:
Our 'unusual' 'aberrant' or 'hybrid' House Sparrow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage:
Mixed flock of Ringed Plover, Dunlin and Redshank - see video in Twitter in sidebar

16-08-2019 Great White Egret Pilning Wetlands - 3rd day (Paul Bowerman)
Pilning Wetlands:
300 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 11 Mute Swan, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 12 Lapwing, 140 Ringed Plover, 40 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Turnstone, 2 Knot, 70 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 88 Redshank, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 1 Peregrine

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Coast - High tide count 08:30:
8 Shelduck - inc 5 well-grown juv, 2 Teal, 1 Little Egret, 2 Moorhen, 6 Oystercatcher, 14 Ringed Plover, 19 Dunlin, 486 BH Gull, 1 GBB Gull, 4 Herring Gull, 3 LBB Gull, 6 Woodpigeon, 2 Magpie, 4 Jackdaw, 2 Rook, 1 Wren, 2 Blackbird

BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath, Englishcombe Lane
2 Woodpigeon carrying nesting material into a tree, 1 Swift over at 18 30

RESERVOIRS

16-8-19 Black Swan at  CVL (Rob Hargreaves)
The lake looking very different to yesterday's photo
Chew Valley Lake:
1 Black Swan, 5 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Lapwing, 1 juv Little Ringed Plover, 1 Common Sandpiper, 4 Green Sandpiper, 23 Common Tern, 2 (1ad + 1juv)  Arctic Tern, 15 Swift, 150 Sand Martin, 150 House Martin
16-8-19 Gadwall at  CVL (Rob Hargreaves)
A lot of Gadwall around the lake
Reports: Rich Andrews, Allan Chard, Bryan Cook, Andy Davis, Rob Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Lucy Masters, Rosemary Setter, Brian Thompson
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