Great White Egrets, Cattle Egret
Red Kite
Turnstones
Black Terns, Arctic Skuas
Hobby
Marsh Harrier
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| One of two juvenile Little Ringed Plovers at Chew today (Lucy Masters) |
BRISTOL
Eastville Park:
3 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron, 5-6 Kingfisher, 3 Robin, 3 Grey Wagtail.
Redland:
House Martin entering nest.
Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, 10+ House Sparrow.
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Oldbury Power Station:
3 Little Egret, 1 Red Kite (Shepperdine), 1 Honey Buzzard over, c.50 mixed Ringed Plover/Dunlin, 4 Curlew, 1 Knot, 2 Greenshank, 4 Common Gull, 60+ Swallow, 500 House Martin (reported around Towers early morning), 1 Willow Warbler, 18 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 2-3 Whinchat.
Inglestone Common:
2 Tawny Owl - singing, 35 Swallow, 25 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 40 Goldfinch.
Chipping Sodbury:
10 Swift.
Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Skylark, Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 9+ Redstart, 4 Whinchat, 3 Wheatear, 3 Linnet, 15 Goldfinch.
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| Sedge Warbler at Portbury Pools (Dave Horlick) |
NORTH SOMERSET
Portbury Wharf:
1 juv Wigeon, 1 Little Egret, 7 Stock Dove, Swift, 1 Sedge Warbler.
Clevedon-Yeo:
4 Ringed Plover, 1 Dunlin, 1 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear.
Sand Point/Bay:
3 Mute Swan, 3 Little Egret, 1 GS Woodpecker (overhead), 1 Peregrine, 30+ Chiffchaff, 12 Willow Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 15+ Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Wheatear, 1 Whinchat, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 2 Tree Pipit (over).
BELOW M4 & BANES
Bath - Englishcombe Lane:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 22 Swift (at 18:45), lots House Sparrow. 1 Goldfinch.
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| 25-08-2019 Hobby NSL (Merv Carlyon) |
1 Hobby
RESERVOIRS
Blagdon Lake:
Redshank and Common Sandpiper on the dam wall, 1 Black Tern at 9:30 a.m.
Chew Valley Lake
Shoveler, 1 Wigeon (ecl m) , 22 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Little Egret, 2 Marsh Harrier - the breast patch bird and the ginger rumped one – also has ‘headlights’ which i didnt note before for some reason, unless two are at the lake with ginger rumps) 1 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 8 Green Sandpiper, 8 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 7 Common Tern, 67+ Black Tern (possibly many more - flocks off Woodford and on Herriotts Pool - majority moulting adults but a fair few juvs), 2 Arctic Skua through at 4 p.m., 4 Kingfisher, 1 Hobby, 1 Peregrine (juv m), 1 Whitethroat - juv,
Dam:
3 Yellow Wagtail.
Heron's Green:
12+ Little Grebe, 1 Cattle Egret, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wheatear, 15+ Pied Wagtail.
Moreton:
1 Sparrowhawk.
Stratford:
1 Redshank,
Herriott's inc Pool:
Teal, 1 Pochard, loads of Tufted Duck, hundreds of Great Crested Grebe, 4 Great White Egret, 12 Ringed Plover and 2 Turnstone flushed by hot air balloon, 2 Green Sandpiper,
Reports: Rich Andrews, Nancy Barrett, Nick Beamson, Karle Burford, Merv Carlyon, Bryan Cook, Pete Coslett, Jane Cumming, Lee Gardiner, Kenny Hills, Adrian Hockey, Dave Horlick, Mike Jackson, **, Andy Middleton, Carol Rushton, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Christopher Teague, Brian Thompson, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG
