Saturday 24 August 2019

24-08-19 Saturday - Black Tern

Totterdown, Bristol Temp 13 - 30 °C. Cloudy start just getting hotter and hotter

Red Kite
Common & Black Tern
Swift
Spotted & Pied Flycatcher

Redstart
Whinchat

Yellow Wagtail
Tree Pipit
Grasshopper Warbler

23-8-19 Black Tern, CVL (Brian Thompson)
BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
1 f Sparrowhawk going for Goldfinches on feeders, Kingfisher

Finzel's Reach:
1 juv Peregrine

Hotwells to Pill & Poole's Wharf:
3 Coot, 25 Redshank, 300 Herring & LBB Gull, 2 Swift


Redland Garden:
1 Sparrowhawk, Carrion Crow heard, 2 Collared Doves, 4 Great Tit, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Robin, 12+ House Sparrow

23-8-19 Swift, Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)
Stoke Park:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 12 Swift, 1 Whinchat

Westbury-on-Trym:
Spotted Flycatcher

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Littleton Brick Pits this AM: 
2 Bar-headed geese with 100+ Canadas, 30 Mallard, Cormorant,  1 juv Sparrowhawk, 1 juv Marsh Harrier circling S, 3 House martins and 10+ SwallowsCetti's warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 30+ Blackcap, House Sparrow (rare here) 

23-8-19 Whitethroat, New Passage (Lisegirl)
New Passage/Pilning Wetland:
Wigeon, Marsh Harrier, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, 2 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Pied Flycatcher, 1 Whinchat, 7 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit

Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Heron, Whitethroat, Blackcap, 5 Redstart, 2 Whinchat- video on Twitter

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, Merchant Square:
7 Grey Wagtail

Clevedon, Kennaway Road:
Swift over

Bristol Airport:
Red Kite

Worle, Moor Lane, Plumley Park:
2 m/f Sparrowhawk, 6 Buzzard, 2 Chiffchaff

Uphill:
Swift

BELOW M4 & BANES

Willsbridge:
1 Tawny Owl 04.00

Bath - Lansdown:
Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Kestrel, 2 Raven, Coal Tit, Chiffchaff, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, Bullfinch, Goldfinch

Bath - Englishcombe Lane:
Swift

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 62 Black Tern


23-8-19 Black Tern, CVL (Allan Chard)
Chew Valley Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose (Dam), 6 Gadwall (Heron's Green), 4 Little Grebe (HG), 240 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Cattle Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret28 Cormorant, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 2 white and 1 dark-headed Marsh Harrier, 21 Little Ringed Plover,  Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 15 Common Tern, 200-210 Black Tern,  2 Kingfisher, 16+ Sand Martin, 3 Swallow (Manor Farm), House Martin, 1 Sedge Warbler, 20 Pied Wagtail

23-8-19 Black Tern, CVL (Brian Thompson)
The record at CVL for Black Tern is 600, 11-8-1965

Reports: Rich Andrews, Derek Angell, Alan Ashman, Nancy Barrett, Paul Bowerman, 
Dru Brooke-Taylor, Allan Chard, Chris@avglochris, john Clark, Bryan Cook, Andy Davis, John Griffiths, Robert Hargreaves, Kenny Hills, Adrian Hockey, Nick Hudson, Simon Isgar,Brian Lancastle,  Lisegirl, Andrew Mears, Nigel Milbourne, Rich Scantlebury, Martin Tayler, Brian Thompson, Keith Vinicombe, Thomas Weston, Paul Williams


23-8-19 Black Tern, CVL (Mike Trew)