Wednesday 27 May 2020

27-05-20 Wednesday - Avocet

Hot with a cooling breeze

Avocet
Red Kite - multiple sightings
Bar-tailed Godwit 
Spotted Flycatcher 


27-05-20 Canada Goose - Sunrise at CVL, Heron's Green  (Lucy Masters)

BRISTOL

27-05-20 Wren Eastville Park (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park:
1 Wren, 1 Treecreeper - still there but not photographed today
07-05-20 Treecreeper EP (Rich Scantlebury)

M32:
2 Peregrine 

Lawrence Weston Moor:
1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Magpie, 2 Swallow, 4 Cetti's Warbler, 3 Chiffchaff, 8 Reed Warbler, 5 Wren, 3 Blackbird, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Robin, 5 House Sparrow

21-05-2020 Peregrine Chick Finzels Reach (Ed Drewitt)
Finzels Reach:
2 Peregrine and 2 chicks - pic taken under schedule 1 licence. Chicks hatched from 16th, with one egg un-hatched. They have been eating Swift and Starling, evidenced by the feathers left behind


Redland - garden:
2 Swift, 2 Woodpigeon, 2 Collard Doves, 5 Feral Pigeon, 2 Herring Gull, 2 Magpie, 1 Carrion Crow, 1 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 2 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 8+ House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock

St George - The Farm allotments:
1 Red Kite - over high up - bird with p1 & or p2 missing

27-05-20 Jackdaw - partial leucistic Hengrove (Rob Daw)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Old Sodbury:
1 Red Kite 

Frampton Cotterell:
1 Red Kite - west at 09:25 and another north east at 13:30, after having a bust up with a Buzzard.

Coalpit Heath:
1 Red Kite - east at 10:30

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon, garden:
7 Bar-tailed Godwit - nocmig recording from last night

Yatton - Kenn Moor Rd:
1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard

Sand Point/Bay:
1 Curlew - bay, 4 Reed Warbler, 1 Spotted Flycatcher - still,

Weston-Super-Mare - St Georges garden:
Swift - plenty, 1 Red Kite - circling but drifting north, 1 Peregrine - failed to catch one of a flock of Feral Pigeon, Martin and Swallow on the wing. Pleasant way to spend lockdown.

Banwell:
7 Swift - 3 screamers low over the houses

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common - garden:
1 Tawny Owl - over first thing today (1am!)

Marksbury:
4 Lapwing

27-05-20 Siskin Bath (Brian Martin)
Bath- Bloomfield:
2 Siskin - on the feeders

Bath - St John's church:
6 Peregrine - the juv really are looking grown up now, 33 to 36 days old.

26-05-20 Red Kite Stanton Drew (Raoul Chandrasakera)
Stanton Drew:
1 Red Kite (26th)

Bishop Sutton:
4 Swift, 3 Collard Dove, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard - both in silage field


RESERVOIRS

CLOSED

Blagdon:
5 Red Kite - on silage fields above the lake.

Chew Valley Lake:


27-05-20 Reed Bunting CVL (George Stacey)
Hollow Brook:
1 Cetti's Warbler - heard, 1 Chiffchaff, many Reed Warbler & Blackcap singing, 2 Song Thrush - juv, 2 Reed Bunting (f&m),

Herons's Green:
Mallard with 8 Ducklings, 6 Swift,  2 Little Grebe, 6 Black-headed Gull, 5 Great Black-backed Gull - a fish to fight over, 2 Herring Gull, 2 Buzzard, 12+ Swallow & House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 4 + Sedge Warbler, 3 Pied Wagtail

27-05-20 Avocet with Oystercatcher CVL (Ian Stapp)

Herriott's - inc Pool:
10 Shelduck, 1 Water Rail - lake side, 40+ Great Crested Grebe, 3 Avocet - lots of walking up & down in the shallows, 1 Oystercatcher, 9 Black-headed Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 5 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 20+ Swallow, 20+ House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 12+ Reed Warbler, 2 Reed Bunting

Reports:Nancy Barrett, John Buglass, BUPP, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Rob Daw, Ed Drewitt, Paul Francis, Dom Godfrey, Paul Gregory, David Hanks, Pete Hazelwood, Adrian Hockey, Brian Martin, Lucy Masters, Mike Moxom, Jean Oliver, Geoff Pudney, Mike Saffery, Rich Scantlebury, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Nigel Tucker, Paul Williams

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