Saturday 7 September 2019

07-09-18 Saturday - Redstart

Bristol Temp 11 - 18°C. The wind calmed down, no rain, but hardly any sun

Knot, Ruff
Curlew Sandpiper
Swift
Redstart, Whinchat
Yellow Wagtail


BRISTOL

Garden:
Unusual 6 Collared Dove

Eastville Park:
3 Mute Swan, Mallard, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Cormorant, 2 Buzzard, 2 Moorhen, BH & LBB Gulls, 1 f Tawny Owl, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Nuthatch, 2 Grey Wagtail, 5 Goldfinch (Fishponds Rd)

Redland Garden:
4 Feral Pigeon, 1 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Jay, for the first time in months 1 Coal Tit, also 1 Blue Tit,  2 Great Tits, 1 Robin, 17+ House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock,  2 Goldfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

7-9-19 Knot, Blackwit, OPS (Peter Coslett)
Oldbury Power Station: 
2 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 2 Buzzard, 1 Oystercatcher, 12 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 10 Dunlin, 20 Redshank, 3 Green Woodpecker, 40 Swallow, 100 House Martin, 5+ Chiffchaff, 15+ Blackcap, Whitethroat, 150 Starling, 3 Wheatear

New Passage/Pilning Wetland:
3 Pintail, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 205 Black-tailed Godwit, 40 Knot, 2 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper (Chessell Pill), 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 100 Hirundine, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Yellow Wagtail

7-9-19 Wheatear, Severn Beach (Merv Carlyon)
Severn Beach:
2 juv Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Wheatear

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, 8 Skylark, 50 Swallow, 3 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat, 1 Redstart, 30 Meadow Pipit

Avonmouth Village:
20 Canada Geese over docks

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, Woodhill Bay:
1 Curlew, 3 Redshank, 3 Nuthatch ringed in a garden near Battery Point

Clevedon, Channel View:
Knot, 2 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat

Uphill:
1 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Whinchat

BELOW M4 & BANES

Lansdown:
Chiffchaffs plastered all over. 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whinchat and 8 Wheatear at the back of racecourse stable block. 1 Whinchat Deanhill farm, 1 Wheatear Kelston Roundhill

Bath, Southdown:
1 Swift over at 11.10

Hunstrete:
1 Buzzard

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
1 juv Marsh Harrier

Chew Valley Ringing Station:
16 Chiffchaff, 23 Sedge & 29 Reed Warbler ringed today, 1 Sedge Warbler & 1 Chiffchaff ringed elsewhere

Chew Valley Lake:
100 Canada Goose (Dam), 2 Egyptian Goose (Dam), 3 Shoveler (Herriott's Pool), 3 Grey Heron (HP), 8 Great White Egret (6 HP, 2 Lakeside), 16 Moorhen (HP), Feral Pigeon (Dam, yellow and blue rings), c12 House Martin, 2 Swallow, 1 Cetti's Warbler (Hollowbrook), 8 Pied Wagtail

Reports: Derek Angell, Jonathan Angell, Nancy Barrett, Merv Carlyon, Peter Coslett, CVRS, Ian Dickie, Richard Giles, John Griffiths, Peter Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, David Howes, Mike Jackson, Brian Lancastle, CL, Andy Mears, David Newman, Rich Scantlebury, Howard Taffs,