If you know where Swallow and Martin normally collect mud for their nest - check to see if it dried up - if it has - apply water!
Hobby
Cuckoo
Spotted Flycatcher
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| Spotted Flycatcher - Strawberry Line, Yatton (Mark Savage) |
Bishopston - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk, 6 Swift.
Conham Wood:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - heard feeding the family
Durdham Down (Peregrine watch point):
8 Herring Gull, 1 Sparrowhawk (missed a Greenfinch), 1 Peregrine, 4 Jackdaw, 2 Song Thrush, 3 Greenfinch.
Stockwood:
House Martin - back and nesting
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| 18-05-20 Shelduck CVL Herriotts pool (Ian Stapp) |
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Itchington:
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker.
Oldbury Power Station:
Coal Tit feeding juvenile.
New Passage/Northwick:
Canada Goose (with young), 2 Grey Heron. 3 Little Egret. 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel. 1 Green Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail (with young).
Western Distribution Park, Pilning:
3 Mallard (plus 9 chicks), 5 Moorhen (with 1 chick), 2 Coot (plus chick), 1 Little Egret, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 8 Cetti's Warbler, 2 LT Tit, 3 Chiffchaff, 4 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 4 Whitethroat, 1 Song Thrush, 5 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting.
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| 18-05-2020 Grey Wagtail Winterbourne Moorend (Barry Dursley) |
1 Grey Wagtail
NORTH SOMERSET
Portishead - Village/Marina/Lake:
3 Mallard - with their own broods, a few House Martin, 2 Rock Pipit - food carry.
" What was disturbing, however, was that under the eaves of quite a few of the buildings, there were many remnants of House Marin nests. It looked to me as if they had been deliberately destroyed. Does anyone know what's been going on down there?"
Yatton - Strawberry Line:
6 Canada Goose, 4 Mute Swan, 2 Mallard families (5 young each), 5 Swift, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 1 Jay, c.70 Jackdaw, 30 Rook (1 rookery of 6 nests at Congresbury and one of 24 nests 2 km further south), 12 Swallow, 15 House Martin, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 1 LT Tit, 10 Chiffchaff, 8 Sedge Warbler, 8 Reed Warbler, 6 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 11 Greenfinch.
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| A lovely day at Newton St Loe (NSL-Birding) |
BELOW M4 & BANES
Willsbridge:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - nest hole with noisy young
Oldland Common - a garden:
2 Raven, 2 Swallow.
Longwell Green:
single Swift over the house!
Warmley Forest Park:
2 Moorhen, 1 Buzzard, 50+ mixed flock of Swift, Swallow and House Martin, 7 Magpie, 12 Jackdaw.
4 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 3 LT Tit, 8 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat,
5 Wren, 12 Starling, 3 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 7 Robin, 5 Dunnock, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch, 9 Greenfinch, 15 Goldfinch.
(Lake almost empty)
2 Red-legged Partridge, 2 Mute Swan (one on nest), 5 Swift, 4 Moorhen, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 7 Skylark, 5 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 7 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 5 Whitethroat, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Bullfinch, 1 Yellowhammer.
(45 species but no sign of Spotted Flycatcher)
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| Skylark at Newton St Loe (NSL-Birding) |
Chew Valley Lake is still CLOSED until further notice
Birding from public roads only - no car parks open and chaotic parking around the dam.Herons Green:
32 Canada Goose (one with 12 goslings). pr. Shoveler, 4 m. Pochard, 23 Great Crested Grebes (some still doing the head-shaking display), 2 Little Grebe, 1 Grey Heron, 2 BH Gull, 1 GS Woodpecker, 1 Raven, 3+ Sedge Warbler, 4 singing Reed Warbler, singing Garden Warbler, 4 Pied Wagtail, 1 Reed Bunting.
Herriotts Bridge:
44 Canada Goose, 43 Mute Swan, 8 Shelduck, 4 Shoveler, 3 Pochard, 1 calling Cuckoo, 100+ Swift, 1 flyover Whimbrel, 7 GBB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 2 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 1 GS Woodpecker, 7 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 4+ Sand Martin, 10 Swallow, 10 House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2+ singing Reed Warbler. (No sign of yesterday's Garganey)
Reports: Phil Barlow, David Campbell, Jane Cumming, Barry Dursley, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Nick Hawkridge, Julian Head, Chris Perry, Lisa Presland, Lois Pryce, Mark Savage, Ian Stapp, Keith Vinicombe, nslbirding, TBOSG blagdonlakebirds
