08-06-20 Monday - Spotted Flycatcher

Fine and sunny with more cloud rolling in later.  Dry, cool, a light wind.

Cuckoo
Hobby
Spotted Flycatcher

Sedge Warbler (Rob Hargreaves)

BRISTOL

Great Spotted Woodpecker (Chris Perry)

Hotwells to Bower Ashton:
Mallard, Feral Pigeon. Woodpigeon, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Buzzard, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Great Tit, House Martin, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Goldfinch.


Warmley Forest Park:
4 Stock Dove, 2 GS Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Whitethroat, 7 Blackcap, 7 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 10 Goldfinch.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Aust Warth:
4 Shelduck, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Kestrel, Woodpigeon, 4 Skylark, 2 Swallow, Wren, Robin, Song Thrush, Blackcap, 15 Starling, 2 Carrion Crow, 4 Linnet.

Pilning Wetlands:
5 Canada Goose, 3 Mute Swan + 1 cygnet, c.40 Shelduck, 2 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 3 Mallard families, 12 Tufted Duck, 7 Moorhen + one brood of 3 and one of one young seen, 6 Coot, 4 Lapwing, 3 BH Gull, 3 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 2 Skylark, c.25 Swallow, c.20 House Martin, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 3 Pied Wagtail, 1 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 8 Linnet.

(Also Meadow Brown, Small Tortoiseshell b’flies and Emperor dragonflies – males fighting over the water, females ovipositing.)

Grey Wagtail at Pensford (Christopher Teague)

NORTH SOMERSET

Yatton:
1 Cuckoo, 1 Skylark, 1 Cetti’s Warbler, 6 Chiffchaff, 3 Sedge Warbler, 4 Reed Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 9 Whitethroat, 26 Wren, 4 Song Thrush, 4 Greenfinch, 4 Reed Bunting.

Uphill:
(WeBS count):  16 Canada Goose, 1 presumed feral Barnacle Goose, 1 Mute Swan, 80 Shelduck, 34 Mallard, 4 Little Egret, 3 Oystercatcher, 72 Herring Gull, 6 LBB Gull.

Weston STW:
1 Little Grebe, 3 Mallard, Moorhen, 10 Swift, Swallow, singing Sedge and Reed Warblers, Whitethroat, 2 Linnet, Reed Bunting.


BELOW M4 & BANES

Bath:
Lansdown:
1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, many Skylark.

Shelduckling on Herriotts pool (Ian Stapp)

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
(WeBS count) 147 Canada Goose, 69 Mute Swan + 9 juv, 5 Gadwall, 61 Mallard + 6 juv, 10 Tufted Duck, 1 Moorhen, 484 Coot, 1 Little Grebe, 10 Great Crested Grebe, 1 BH Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 2 LBB Gull, 4 Cormorant, 5 Grey Heron, 6 Buzzard, 5 Hobby.


Chew Valley Lake

Heron's Green:

20+ Swift, 6 Little Grebe, 4 Grey Heron, 4 BH Gull, 3 Buzzard, 1 GS Woodpecker, 8 House Martin,
5 Sedge Warbler, 12+ House Sparrow, 9 juv. Pied Wagtail, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Reed Bunting.

Stratford:
Sparrowhawk, Hobby, Kingfisher, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting.

Reed Warbler at Herriotts Bridge (Ian Stapp)

Herriott's - inc Pool:
2 Canada Goose, 2 Shelduck with 8 Shelducklings, 1 Cuckoo, 150+ Swift, 11 G C Grebe (2 with 2 juv.), 7 BH Gull, 2 GBB Gull, 5 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 7 Buzzard, 2 GS Woodpecker, 1 Hobby, 8 Jackdaw, 20+ House Martin, 12+ Swallow, 6 Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Song Thrush, 6 House Sparrow, 2 Pied Wagtail (with 5 juv.), 2 Grey Wagtail (with 5 juv.), 2 Reed Bunting.

Swift at Chew (Ian Stapp)

Reports:   Dru Brooke-Taylor, Jane Cumming, Matthew Hall, Rob Hargreaves, Lucy Masters, Michael Newstead, Chris Perry, Lois Pryce, Trevor Riddle, 

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