Monday 2 September 2019

02-09-19 Monday - Avocet

Bristol Temp 11 - 20 °C. Beautiful weather today, one light shower and just a little cooler

Osprey
Avocet
Curlew Sandpiper, Snipe
Swift
Wryneck
Garden Warbler
Spotted Flycatcher
Whinchat
Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit


2-9-19 Avocet, Stratford (Lucy Masters)
BRISTOL

Stoke Park:
1 juv Green Woodpecker

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station: 
1 Osprey (Pillhead Gout), 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank

Littleton Brick Pits:
1 Tree Pipit ringed

2-9-19 Curlew Sandpiper showing white rump, New Passage (Merv)
New Passage/Pilning Wetland:
1 Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 100 Ringed Plover, 4 Curlew, 225 Black-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, 4 (1 ad 3 juv) Curlew Sandpiper, 180 Dunlin, 7 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 ad Peregrine, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Yellow Wagtail

NORTH SOMERSET

2-9-19 Canada Geese and cranes (John Clark)
Portishead:
Canada Geese, 7 Buzzard, 1 Raven

Easton-in-Gordano:
1 Sparrowhawk
2-9-19 Red Kite, Channel View (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon-Yeo, Channel View:
1 Red Kite, 70 Ringed Plover, 1 Knot, 60 Dunlin, 1 Wryneck, 1 Whinchat

Sand Point/Middle Hope, 1st:
5 Oystercatcher, 1 Kestrel, 5 Swallow, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Hewish:
Swallows massing outside cottage

BELOW M4 & BANES

2-9-19 Swallow, Newton St Loe (NSL-birding)
Newton St Loe:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 2 Sand Martin, 80+ Swallow, 65+ House Martin, 10 Long-tailed tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Blackcap, 3 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch, 5 Bullfinch, 25 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer

Bath, Rush Hill:
Swift

RESERVOIRS

2-9-19 Water Rail, Stratford juv (Lucy Masters) adult (Raoul Chandrasakera)
Chew Valley Lake:
Mute Swan (mating seen), 1 Black Swan, 1 Egyptian Goose, 1 Shelduck, 11 Wigeon, 3 Pintail, 60 Pochard, 16 Little Grebe, 133 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 7 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 4 Buzzard, 3 Water Rail,

2-9-19 Avocet Stratford (Raoul Chandrasakera)
2 juv Avocet, 2 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Green Sandpiper, 11 GBB Gull, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker

2-9-19 juv Hobby, CVL (Robert Hargreaves)
5 Hobby, 2 Jay, 1 Raven, 16 Sand Martin, 4 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 20 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 5 Reed Warbler, 2 Goldcrest, 2 Whinchat, 20 Pied Wagtail, 7 Chaffinch, 4 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting

2-9-16 Chaffinch, Moreton (Ian Stapp)
Out of Avon:

Cornwall, St Ives and the Lizard:
2 Brown Booby video

2-9-19 Great Black-backed Gull CVL (Mike Trew)
The Wild Justice petition 
Has passed 100,000 required for the government to respond.

2-9-19 Avocet away, Stratford (Ian Stapp)
Reports: Terri Borash, John Clark, Raoul Chandrasalera, Jane Cumming, Stephen Curtis, Richard Giles, Patrick Haigh, Robert Hargreaves, Peter Hazelwood, David Howes, Lucy Masters, Merv Carlyon, NSL-Birding, Aravind Ramesh, Carol Rushton, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Mike Trew