Sunday, 14 June 2020

14-06-20 Sunday - Wood Sandpiper

Temp 14 to 22°C. Warm and wet in the morning but sunny periods afternoon

Red Kite
Wood Sandpiper
Crossbill


14-6-20 Blue Tit, Chew Stoke (Lucy Masters)
BRISTOL

Harbourside - floating reed bed:
1 Reed Warbler - singing

Highridge Road:
1 Kestrel, 3 Swallow

14-6-20 Willow Warbler, Shirehampton (Les Williams)
Shirehampton, Lamplighter's Marsh Nature Reserve:
1 Willow Warbler family, Robin - juv

Stockwood Open Space:
4 Song Thrush - all singing

Withywood garden:
3 Swift, 4 low flying Raven, 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Thornbury:
Crossbill flying south

14-6-20 Wood Sandpiper. Lesser Whitethroat, Pilning Wetland (Dean Reeves)
New Passage:
2 Knot, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 3 Sand Martin, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Meadow Pipit

NORTH SOMERSET

Bristol Airport:
Red Kite drifting west

Worle:
1 fledged Coal Tit

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common - garden:
15 Swift - screaming party

14-6-20 Peregrine, Bath (BUPP)
Where did the Redshank being carried come from? 
Bath:
6 Peregrine - 4 juv doing well

14-6-20 Sand Martin, Bath (Rob Hargreaves)
Bath, Twerton to Windsor Bridge:
12 Swift, 1 Moorhen, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 7 + 3 juv Sand Martin, 7 House Martin + 1+ juv, 10 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Chaffinch, 12 Goldfinch

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Ringing Station:
Many happy returns: female Blackcap ringed here as a juv in 2018, bred here last year and again this year; male Reed Warbler ringed here as a nestling last year, now presumably holding a territory; a male Sedge Warbler that held a territory here last year and probably is again

Herriott's:
2 Little Egret, 1 ad m Kestrel, 2 Hobby, 1 Peregrine, 2 Sand Martin

Mike Landen in Ecuador February 2020

Reports: Ian Dickie, Paul Francis, Margaret Gorely, Robert Hargreaves, Lucy Masters, Dean Reeves, Matt Scott, Hamish Smith, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG