12-09-19 Thursday - Great White Egret

Bristol Temp 15 - 22°C. "Looking out of my window now I see a sunny day but at 6.30am it was just wet, not very heavy and enough to make counts etc difficult or impossible"

12-9-19 Little Egret, Newton St Loe (NSL Birding)

Bittern
Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier
Crane
Knot
Greenshank
Whinchat

BRISTOL

Canford Park:
9 Cranes over 11.30

12-9-19 Kingfisher, Eastville Park (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park:
Kingfisher

Redland:
1 Collared Dove, 1 Jay, 2 House Martin, 3 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 15 House Sparrow

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Pilning Wetland:
c.100 Canada Goose, 4 Mute Swan, c.30 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, c.50 Oystercatcher, 5 Lapwing, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, flock c.40 Dunlin, 35 Redshank, 4 Pied Wagtail, flock c.40 Linnet

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead, Battery Point garden:
1 Grey Wagtail

Clevedon-Yeo:
153 Shelduck, 54 Mallard, 6 Teal, 1 Great White Egret, 10 Little Egret, 4 Oystercatcher, 80 Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 80 Curlew, 8 Turnstone, 600 Knot, 100 Dunlin, 1 Snipe, 100+ Redshank, 1 Greenshank, 1 Wheatear, 20 Meadow Pipit

At 4.00pm in bright sun the Knot were not about - not a sign of any. Probably they are feeding elsewhere in the Estuary, possibly the Welsh coast, and returning to the Kenn mouth to roost. If any info is forthcoming we would welcome it. This is a record flock for the site. In the 1980s when 10000+ Dunlin were regularly seen roosting here (at Cl-Y) most of the birds were feeding on the Welsh coast crossing the Estuary twice a day to Cl-Y, presumably to find a safe roost.

By evening along Dowlais, the Knot flock was back but there was only one Dunlin

BELOW M4 & BANES

12-9-19 Wheatear, Marshfield (Peter Coslett)

Marshfield:
2 Common Buzzard, 5 Skylark, 9 Wheatear between Tormarton Road and Drifton Hill Wilts, 100 Linnet

12-9-19 Sparrowhawk, Newton St Loe (NSL Birding)

Newton St Loe:

2 Teal, 1 Little Grebe, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Kestrel, 1 juv Peregrine, 1 Jay, 3 Raven, 6 Chiffchaff, 5 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake:
14 Wigeon (10 in Herons Green), 1 Bittern (Stratford), 11 Great White Egret, 1 juv Marsh Harrier, 6 Hobby (Stratford), 1 Whinchat (HG)

Reports: Nancy Barrett, Allan Chard, Peter Coslett, Chris Craig, John Croxton, Jane Cumming,  Andy Davis,, David Howes, , Simon Isgar, Hugh Maynard, NSL Birding, Lois Pryce, Harvey Rose, Howard Taffs