29-05-20 Friday - Cuckoo

Temp 12 to 26°C. Very hot again

Red Kite
Spotted Flycatcher
Cuckoo

29-5-20 Sedge Warbler, Herons Green (Raoul Chandrasakera)

BRISTOL

Avonmouth - Kings Weston Lane:
2 Mute Swans with six cygnets (new nesting location), 1 Mallard with six ducklings,  1 Coot with 4 young,  1 Grey Heron

Clifton:
9 Swift this evening - up from 2 then 6 on Tue

29-05-20 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Rich Scantlebury)

Finzels Reach:

4 Peregrine inc 2 chicks

Hotwells to Long Ashton via Ashton Court and Long Ashton Golf Course:
Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Cormorant, Green Woodpecker, Magpie, Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Great Tit, Swallow, Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat, Wren, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Goldfinch

Stockwood Open Space:
Great Spotted Woodpecker - family about to fledge, 2 Bullfinch, 7 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

29-05-20 Shelduck OPS (Pete Hazelwood)

Oldbury Power Station:
10 Shelduck ducklings on the Tidal Res, pair of Little Grebe, 1 Cuckoo  - calling over Lagoons 2 & 3, to the dismay of the local Reed Warbler and the first noisy Linnet family

Frampton Cotterell:
1 possibly 2 Red Kite

Winterbourne -Moorend:
Stock Dove, Buzzard, 1 Jay, Long-tailed Tit, Goldcrest

NORTH SOMERSET

Nailsea - Old Church:
2 Swift swooped over.

Wraxall - Belmont Estate farm:
1 Red Kite, 1 Kestrel, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 9 Skylark, 6 Swallow, family of Long-tailed Tit, 1 Song Thrush, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 7 Yellowhammer

Worle:
1 Peregrine

Uphill to Lympsham: Today's cycle ride was actually a loop, but that was most interesting bit. 2 Swift, 1 Cuckoo to south of STW, Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, Reed & Sedge Warbler with Chiffchaff  singing, Whitethroat were very much in evidence, Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting (m) 

Congresbury to Puxton:

1 Cuckoo, 1 Cormorant, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Sedge Warbler, 43 Reed Warbler,  2 Stonechat + 2 juv, 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Hanham:
1 Jay - 1st for ages

Lansdown & Hanging Hill:
1 Red Kite, 1 Spotted Flycatcher

Compton Martin:
2 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
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Blue Bowl:
1 Red Kite

29-5-20 Swallow, Heron Green (Raoul Chandrasakera)

Herriott's:
8 Red Kite, 2 Hobby

Reports: Katherine Boon, Dru Brooke-Tayler, Raoul Chandrasakera, Jane Cumming, Barry Dursley, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Richard Giles, Nick Hudson, Robin Martin, Michael Moxon, Phill Quinn, Dean Reeves, Adèle Remazeilles, Gil Roberts, Ann Rossiter, Michael Salter, Paul Sawyer, Rich Scantlebury, Matt Scott, Paul Williams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG