30-08-19 Friday - White Stork

Temperatures 15- 24°C. Another lovely day again, warm and quite breezy

Pink-footed Goose
White Stork 
Great White Egret 
Manx Shearwater
Little Ringed Plover, Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper
Swift
Marsh Tit 
Spotted Flycatcher
Redstart (28th), Whinchat
Yellow Wagtail
Tree Pipit

30-08-19 White Stork over Herriotts from Stratford Hide, CVL (Bri Thompson)
[Carrying a transmitter, so one of the Project Stork birds]

BRISTOL

St George - R Avon:
1 Kingfisher - early morning call

Eastville Park:
3 Mute Swan, 36 Mallard, 2 Grey Heron, 3 Moorhen (one on nest), BH Gull, Herring and LBB Gulls, c 10 Swift, 1 Kingfisher, 2 GS Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, c50 House Martin, 1 Chiffchaff, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail

A large mixed flock of Swifts and House Martins over the lake.

It would appear the juvenile Kingfishers have now been expelled from the territory

Stoke Bishop:
A single Swift flying low over Kewstoke Road doing some half-hearted screaming. Was this one of the last of the juveniles from the Druid Stoke colony?

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

30-08-19 Wheatear, Oldbury PS (Matt Plenty)

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Curlew (!!), 49 Redshank, 40 Ringed Plover, 11 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper,1 Hobby, 1 Sand Martin, 2 Lesser Whitethroat , c15 Blackcap,1 Coal Tit

30-08-19 Great White Egret, Pilning Wetland (Lisegirl)

New Passage/Northwick:
377 Canada Geese,1 Great White Egret,  88 Black-tailed Godwit, 60 Turnstone, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 7 Collared Dove, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 256 Starling, 3 Wheatear, 2 Grey Wagtail

30-08-19 moulting adult Curlew Sandpiper, Severn Beach (Paul Bowerman)

Severn Beach:
1 Manx Shearwater (11.30 am) A good selection of waders on the very high tide this morning including Spotted Redshank, Greenshank and 2 Curlew Sandpiper ( 1 adult, I juvenile), 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Rock Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

30-08-19 Whimbrel, Sand Bay (Dean Reeves)

Sand Point/Bay:
7 Little Egret,23 Oystercatcher, 3 Whimbrel, 55 Curlew, 4 Raven, 3 Chiffchaff , 4 Whitethroat, 5 Wheatear, 5 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 6 Stonechat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
Rushmead Lane - 1 Wheatear

Bath:
A single Swift over Oldfield Park 19.35. [Observer's comment:'Possibly my latest-ever sighting, beating the 28th of August last year]

30-08-19 Greenfinch, Great Tit, Goldfinch, Bath (Wayne Tucker)

Bath - Bath Mill:
Great Tit, Greenfinch and Goldfinch - back on the feeders

Newton St Loe:
1 Sparrowhawk - with House Martin over the village, 5 Spotted Flycatcher around top lake

Cameley:
Latest update on migrants passing through the garden at Cameley (ST6050):
Blackcap and Chiffchaff – heavy passage from 20th to 28th when rain stopped play. Just a few since then.
Willow Warbler, Whitethroat and Garden Warbler - several of each.
Reed Warbler – one was an unusual visitor (mistnetted over the lawn).

All were juveniles.
Redstart – one juv on 28th (exactly same place as last year).
Robin – good numbers of juveniles indicates either passage or post-juvenile dispersal.

Also:Marsh Tits returned at the beginning of August, here ever since having been absent for several years.

Song Thrushes maintain their presence, sharing the snails in the garden with the local Badger population.

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

30-08-19 Pink-footed Goose HG Wall, CVL (Ian Stapp)

1 Pink-footed Goose ( HG wall with Canadas - not that often seen at the lake), 3 Egyptian Goose (Dam),1 Black Swan (Stratford Bay), 1 Shelduck, 3 Pintail (Herriotts Pool), 22+ Little  Grebe, 168 GC Grebe, 7 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 5 Great White Egret, 4 Buzzard, 2 Common Sandpiper (HG), 1 Little Ringed Plover (HG wall) 5 Green Sandpiper (3 Herriotts Pool 2 Moreton), 1 Snipe, 11 GBB Gull, 4 Stock Dove, 22 Wood Pigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Kingfisher (Herriotts Pool), 1 Kestrel , 6 Hobby (3 Villice 2 Moreton 1 Stratford), 3 GS Woodpecker

30-08--19 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stratford, CVL (Ian Stapp)

1 Green Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 5 Jackdaw, 3 Raven, c 40 LTT with mixed tits in two separate flocks, 5 Goldcrest, 30+ House Martin/ Sand Martin, 7 Swallow,  1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Blackcap, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Whinchat (HG back pool), 4 Blackbird, 20 House Sparrow, 11 Pied Wagtail, 2 Goldfinch, 7 Chaffinch, 2 Reed Bunting

Stratford Hide:
1 White Stork found by Derrick J Angell, last seen gaining height heading south-east, late afternoon

30-08-10 another photo of the White Stork at CVL (Bri Thompson)
[A more distant upper-wing pic - no rings showing in photos but a transmitter visible,
making it one of the Project Stork birds from the Knepp Estate]

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