Tuesday, 16 June 2020

16-06-20 Tuesday - Rose-coloured Starling

Nice - apart from the thunderstorm at 3pm

Rose-coloured Starling
Crossbill
Great White Egret
Red Kite
Black-tailed Godwit 
Common Tern


BRISTOL

16-06-20 Peregrine Finzels Reach (Peter Derrett)
City Centre - Finzels Reach:
Peregrine family doing ok

The Downs & Avon Gorge:
4 Herring Gull, 8 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 1 Peregrine - juv, 27 Jackdaw - successful breeding, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 4 Blackbird, 1 Bullfinch,

Hotwells, River Avon, Rownham Side:
3 Mallard, 9 Swift, 6 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Black-headed Gull - ad, 9 Herring Gull, 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull - inc 1 sitting, 7 Magpie, 21+ Jackdaw, 3 Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit - inc recently fledged juv, 4 House Martin, Wren, 3 Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, 3 House Sparrow, 1 Dunnock, 2 Greenfinch, 1+ Goldfinch

16-06-20 Lesser Black-backed Gull Southville - one of Peter Rock's birds (Kate Hale)
Southville:
Lesser Black-backed Gull - ringed 1997 Bristol as a juv - now with his own family

16-06-20 Rose-coloured Starling Whitchurch ( Mervyn Pearce)
Whitchurch - Church Rd - Churchways
Rose-coloured Starling

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
Curlew - failed breeders starting to arrive back - count doubled in 4 days

New Passage - garden:
1 Sparrowhawk - 'crashed into my bird feeders, landed on the balcony and then swooped over my head about a foot away. Didn’t get it’s catch I’m sure, it was amazing'

Severn Beach:
4 Great White Egret - heading south at 4:30pm. 'I only saw them because of a phone call from a birder in Gwent who could see them heading my way from 2 miles away', 4 Crossbill - heading North

Hawkesbury Upton - BBS:
2 Curlew flying over low - bit of a surprise, 1 Nuthatch, c50 Starling, 2 Yellowhammer, 3 Corn Bunting

Yate:
Family of Goldcrest - in the conifers at work

Frampton Cotterell:
3 Raven

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Lake Grounds - BBS
62 Canada Goose, 1 Shelduck, 63 Mallard, 6 Swift, 1 Stock Dove, 12 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 2 Moorhen, 70 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 7 Carrion Crow, 3 House Martin, 3 Wren, 4 Starling, 9 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 2 Robin, 30 House Sparrow, 3 Dunnock, 4 Pied Wagtail, 8 Goldfinch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Oldland Common:
21 Swift - on high this evening

Bath, Twerton:
1 Sparrowhawk

Bath, Charlcombe - BBS:
4 Stock Dove, 1 Jay, 2 Raven, 14 Skylark, 9 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 3 Whitethroat, 6 Song Thrush, 1 Pied Wagtail, 3 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, 9 Goldfinch, 3 Yellowhammer

Batheaston:
1 Red Kite

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
1 Egyptian Goose - Dam, 2 Shoveler, 7 Teal, 1 Black-tailed Godwit - sum plum, 9 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull -3rd sum, 2 Common Tern,  4 Little Egret, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kingfisher, 1 Nuthatch - a good day at the lake.
1 OTTER - - swam right across the lake from the direction of the East Shore to Villice Bay.

16-06-20 Reed Bunting CVL (George Stacey)
Hollowbrook:
2 Red Kite - circling low, Reed Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 4 Reed Bunting (2f&2m) - hard at it feeding the family

16-06-20 Sedge Warbler CVL (George Stacey)
Heron's Green:
2 Sedge Warbler,

Herriott's:
1 Oystercatcher, 1 Mediterranean Gull - 1st sum

Reports: Rich Andrews, Paul Bowerman, Dru Brooke-Taylor, Anne Crowe, Jane Cumming, Andy Davis,  Peter Derrett, Barry Dursley, Paul Francis, Kate Hale, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Pete Hazelwood, Jeff Hosier, Wilf King, Nige Milbourne, Mervyn Pearce, Lisa Presland, Peter Rock, George Stacey, J Saunders, Keith Vinicombe

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