Tuesday, 2 June 2020

02-06-20 Tuesday - Honey Buzzard

The same old weather HOT.

Red Kite
Honey Buzzard
Cuckoo
Hobby

02-06-20 Smiley face Sky writing - Bishopston (Steve Thoughton)

BRISTOL

01-06-20 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Rich Scantleury)
City Cente Finzels Reach:
30 Herring Gull, 4 Peregrine -nc 2 chicks, 2 Grey Wagtail

Clifton - Hensman’s Hill:
29 Swift - screaming away

02-06-20 Honey Buzzard King's Weston Down (Phil Baber)
King's Weston Down:
1 Honey Buzzard"Best of poor shots crops adjusted. Tail length= to wing width & evident "neck". Hands very translucent white (V.Obvious) = ad. male.Mid-range plumage tone for HB. Black carpals & rear wing border. Tail not seen spread."

Stockwood Open Spave:
Great Spotted Woodpecker - family fledged successfully

Stoke Bishop:
first juvenile Dunnock in our garden in four years

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

02-06-20 Magpie Yate (Chris Teague)
Yate:
On of 3 Magpie - juv, in the garden today

Alveston:
6 Swift - screaming over the house

NORTH SOMERSET

Abbots Leigh - Lower Failand, including part of Tanpit Wood:
Pheasant, Swift, Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, 6+ Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, 2 Kestrel, Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Swallow, House Martin, Chiffchaff - everywhere, Blackcap, Starling, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Cleavedon - Yeo Est
100+ Shelduck plus ducklings, 12, 4 & 10+ - kept diving, 3 Oystercatcher, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Little Egret, 5 Skylark, 2 Pied Wagtail, 

BELOW M4 & BANES

Wick Quarry:
1 Red Kite, 5 Buzzard

Kingswood:
1 Red Kite - drifting towards Warmley

Oldland Common:
12 Swift - screaming briefly overhead

Saltford - Weir:
1 Grey Wagtail

02-06-20 Peregrine Bath St John's (BUPP)
Bath - St John's Church:
6 Peregrine - 4 juv fledged today, 40 o 43 days old. All safe and well.

Bishop Sutton:
2 Collared Dove,

RESERVOIR

Blagdon Lake (1st June):
1 Cuckoo (m) calling, 12 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Great White Egret, 5 Hobby, 1 Lesser Whitethroat,

Chew Valley Lake

Woodford:
5+ Great Crested Grebe - off the lodge,

02-06-20 Reed Warbler CVL Nunnery (Ian Stapp)
Nunnery:
 2 Little Grebe, 1 Red Kite - over parkland, mobbed by 2 gulls, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 9 Blue Tit - family party feeding, 3 Chiffchaff, 24 Reed Warbler - all in the first small pond calling, 4 Blackbird & on the lane to the hide 2 Song Thrush and 2 Bullfinch

 02-05-20 Little Grebe CVL H Green Pool (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
74 Canada Goose,  5 Little Grebe, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard, 1 Hobby, 2 Jay, 4 Sedge Warbler, 6 House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Moreton:
6 Pheasant, 2 Great Spotted Wood -  chicks calling, 1 Kestrel, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Mistle Thrush,

02-06-20 Oystercatcher CVL Herriotts pool (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's - inc Pool:
39 Canada Goose, 10 Shelduck, 30+ Great Crested Grebe, 1 Oystercatcher - had a bit of a fly around, lots of calling then come back to the pool, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 4 Grey Heron, 3 Buzzard,
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 30+ Swallow, 40+ House Martin, 8+ Reed Warbler, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Reports: Phil Baber, Robert Bright, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Sova Buchan, BUPP, Rich Ford, Tim Ford, Paul Francis, Mike Moxon, Lois Pryce, Phil Quinn, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, TBOSG, Chris Teague, Stephen Troughton

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