Monday 1 June 2020

01-06-20 Monday - Osprey

Fine, hot and sunny again for the first day of meteorological summer.  If it doesn't rain soon there'll be a hosepipe ban!

Osprey
(late news) Little Bittern

Sedge Warbler at Herons Green, Chew (Ian Stapp)
BRISTOL

Dundry:
1 Little Owl.

Eastville Park:

Brood of Coots at Eastville Park (Allan Chard)
Hambrook:
2 Mallard, 5 Swift, 6 Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 4 Magpie, 50 Jackdaw, 2 Carrion Crow, 5 Blue Tit, 8 Great Tit, 2 Swallow, 1 House Martin, 3 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap, 2 Whitethroat, 6 Wren, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, 5 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 4 Goldfinch.

St George's:
Crews Hole:  7 Swift in a screaming party.

Warmley:
1 Red Kite at 14:45 hrs.

Mute Swan brood at Pilning Wetlands (Tony Scott)
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
44 Shelduck on the tideline at low tide this a.m.

Pilning Wetlands:
pr. Mute Swan with a brood of four goslings on the wetland.

Winterbourne:
1 Swift, 7 Woodpigeon, 1 Red Kite, 2 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Magpie, 14 Jackdaw, 4 Carrion Crow, 7 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 4 Skylark, 3 Swallow, 3 Long-tailed Tit, 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 6 Whitethroat, 7 Wren, 1 Nuthatch, 3 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 8 Robin, 11 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 1 Greenfinch, 7 Goldfinch, 2 Corn Bunting,


NORTH SOMERSET

Yatton, Strawberry Line:
Local BBS survey (highlights):  4 Cetti’s Warbler, 7 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 7 Reed Warbler, 10 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Whitethroat, 21 Wren.

Kenn Moor:
calling Cuckoo.

Banwell:
3 ad, 1 juv. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinches.


BELOW M4 & BANES
no reports


RESERVOIRS

Now open for season ticket holders (no day permits yet)  with restrictions on use of hides.

Reed Warbler, Stratford (Lucy Masters)
Blagdon Lake:
Late news from last Wednesday: a Little Bittern circled over the lake at 10 p.m., then left.

Shoveler at Herons Green, Chew (Ian Stapp)
Chew Valley Lake:
1 Egyptian Goose, 1 f. Goldeneye, 1 m. Cuckoo, 4 Swift, 1 Little Egret, 1 Osprey going E at 10:45 hrs, 4 Red Kite, 2 Kestrel, 2 Hobby.

Herons Green:
1 Shoveler, 6 Little Grebe, 2 G BB Gull, 3 Buzzard, 5+ Sedge Warbler, 12+ Swallow, 20+ House Martin, 2 Reed Bunting.

Picnic sites:
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler.

Stratford:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, nesting Reed Warblers (please be careful not to disturb), 1 Reed Bunting.

Herriott's Pool:
9 Greylag Goose, 10 Shelduck, Shoveler, Gadwall, Teal, 1 Little Egret, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Oystercatcher, 2 GBB Gull, 3 Mediterranean Gull (1st sum, 2nd sum, ad – hawking insects early morning off Herriott’s lakeside), 4 Buzzard, 2 Jay, 7 Jackdaw, 1 Sand Martin, 1 Sedge Warbler, 8+ Reed Warbler.

Swallow after a wash at Herons Green, Chew (Ian Stapp)
Reports:  John Croxton, Oliver Fournier, Julian Head, Nick Hudson, Lucy Masters, Trevor Riddle, Tony Scott, Don Smith, Ian Stapp, John Thorogood, blagdonlakebirds