24-05-20 Sunday - Sea birds

Temp 12 to 18°C. Cloudy start but the wind dropped as the day went on and calm sunny afternoon

Barnacle Goose
Common Scoter
Sanderling
Collared Pratincole
Sandwich Tern, Kittiwake
Arctic Skua, Guillemot, Razorbill, Storm Petrel, Fulmar, Manx Shearwater
Spotted Flycatcher

24-5-20 Barnacle Geese and Collared Pratincole, Pilning Wetlands (Chris Snook)

BRISTOL

Downs and Redland garden:
1 Swift, 1 Wood Pigeon, 2 Collared Doves, 5 Feral Pigeons, 1 Jay, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackbirds, 9 House Sparrows, 2 Great Tit

24-5-20 Common Mynah (escapee?), Stoke Park (Martin Tayler)

Eastville Lake and Stoke Park:
Swift, 1 Common Mynah, Whitethroat,

Stockwood:
1 Red Kite

Stoke Bishop, Kewstoke Rd area:
1 Cockatiel, a fledged Blackbird being fed by an adult, and a fledged Goldfinch feeding itself

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Pheasant, 5 Shelduck, 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Moorhen with 2 young, 1 LT Tit, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff, 4 Reed Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, 2 Song Thrush, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting, 1 Meadow Brown, 1 Common Blue, 2 Small Heath

24-5-20 Collared Pratincole, Pilning Wetlands (Brian Lancastle)

Severnside:
3 Barnacle Goose, 6 Common Scoter, 2 Sanderling, 1 Collared Pratincole, 1 Arctic Skua, 4 Razorbill, 2 Storm Petrel, 1 Red Kite, 1 Rock Pipit

24-5-20 Rock Pipit, Severnside (Chris Snook)

NORTH SOMERSET

24-5-20 Linnet, Portishead (Peter Evans)

Portishead, Down Rd:
2 Linnet

Clevedon, Ladye Bay:
1 Common Scoter, 5 Sanderling, 2+ Kittiwake, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Guillemot, 1 Storm Petrel, 3 Fulmar, 1 Manx Shearwater

Woodspring Bay South – River Yeo to R Banwell, WeBS:
14 Mute Swan, 2 Egyptian Goose + 2 yng, 42 Shelduck + 8yng, 17 Mallard, 4 Coot, 1 Oystercatcher, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Herring Gull, 2BB Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Kestrel, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Whitethroat

Sand Point:
1 Cuckoo, 8 Sandwich Tern, 4 Guillemot, 1 Storm Petrel, 2 Fulmar, 11 Manx Shearwater,

Worle and Worlebury:
Blue Tits busy & lots of fledged  Starling, Long-tailed Tits, 6 Blackbirds 2 juvs, 2 juv Robins, a few recently fledged  House Sparrows, Dunnock, Adult 5 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch

Weston-super-Mare, Anchor Head:
1 Arctic Skua

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
8 Swift, 15 House Martin, Lesser Whitethroat, 3 pair Spotted Flycatcher Shire Valley, Yellow Wagtail, plenty of Skylark, Linnet, Corn Bunting and Yellowhammer

24-5-20 Peregrine Eyasse, St John's Ch (BUPP)
video on Twitter

Bath - St John's 
6 Peregrine - 4 juv, growing up fast

Bath, Twerton:
32 Swift at once over

Carrs Woodland:
1 Jay, 5 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, Nuthatches feeding young, 2 Song Thrush, 1 Grey Wagtail

24-5-20 Blue Tit box, Paulton (Patrick Hancock)

Paulton:
Blue Tit - 6 eggs, 5 hatched, 1+ dead, probably only 3 to fledge

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
Picnic areas open, hides should open 29th but only 20 minutes and two people at a time

Lockdown Updates

Unusual British Bird Names by Dru Brooke-Taylor - please send in yours

Home Patch 12 Clifton - Richard Bland

Reports: John Barnett, Nancy Barrett, Paul Bowerman, Allan Chard, Anne Crowe, Peter Evans, Rich Ford, Paul Gregory, For the birds, Patrick Hancock, Robert Hargreaves, Adrian Hockey, David Hughes, Stephen Jones, Robert Kelsh, Brian Lancastle, Giles Morris, Oli@Somerset_OG, James Payne, Lois Pryce, Phil Quinn, Dean Reeves, Scott@HR3Birder, Nigel Sluman, Chris Smith, Chris Snook, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Ian Wells, Paul Williams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG