12-07-20 Sunday - Cuckoo

Temp 11 to 23°C. Plenty of sunshine, hardly any clouds, more English summer

Cuckoo
Whimbrel
Mediterranean Gull, Common Gull
Red Kite
Redstart
Yellow Wagtail

Spotted Flycatcher

BRISTOL

Redland:

20 Swift

Withywood garden::
5 Swift, 3 Buzzard, 1 Kestrel

Bike Ride:

31 Swifts (7 in Coombe Dingle; 20 Olveston; 4 Berkeley); 2 Little Egret (between Hill & Rockhampton); 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Tortworth). Various groups House Martin

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Littleton Brick Pits (am):
20+ flock of large (presumably geese) distantly heading South, 4 Mallard, 2 Swift, 2 Moorhen, 20+ Swallow, 5+ House Martin, 2 Cetti's Warbler - ad & juv, 10+ Chiffchaff, 30+ Reed warbler, 10+ Blackcap, 10+ Starling

Northwick Warth:

Teal, 240 BH Gull, 2 sum plum Mediterranean Gull, Common Gull, 1 ad + 3 juv Avocet, 50 Redshank, 10 Dunlin, 1/2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Black-tailed Godwit,  1 Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail

Olveston:

20 Swift

Chipping Sodbury:

2 Raven over garden, 2 Redstart on Common

Wickwar, Lower Woods, Plummer's Trench:

2 Spotted Flycatcher - in two places 1/2 km apart.

Coalpit Heath:

1 Red Kite

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:

67 juv Herring and LBB Gulls on the island

Easton-in-Gordano:

20 Swift, Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, Whitethroat, 1 Yellowhammer

Failand:

LBB Gull, Buzzard, Green Woodpecker, Jay, Magpie, Rook, Swallow, Chiffchaff, Song Thrush with food, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch

Kenn:

1 juv Cuckoo

Sand Bay:

1 Whimbrel, 4 Curlew, Sand Martin, 16 Swallow, 3 Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Stonechat, Meadow Pipit, 15 Linnet, 5 ad + 3 juv Reed Bunting

Backwell Lake:

9 Canada Geese, 15 Mute Swan with 9 cygnets (2 broods), 55 Mallard, 3 BH Gull, 1 Grey Heron, 2 Raven (Nailsea Park), 1 House Martin, 2 Chiffchaff

Bourton Combe:

1 young Goldcrest

Barrow Court area:

8 Mallard, 4 Moorhen with 3 chicks, 1 Buzzard, 2 Kestrel with 1 young

BELOW M4 & BANES

12-7-20 Grey Heron, Shire Valley (Les Williams)

Marshfield, Shire Valley:

1 Grey Heron

12-7-20 Greenfinch, Newton St Loe (NSL Birding)

Newton St Loe:

1 Swift, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 2 Kestrel, 3 Raven, 12 Swallow, 11 House Martin, 1 Whitethroat

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Herriott's Bridge:

1 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Green Sandpiper

Reports: Dru Brooke-Taylor, Peter Bryant, Neil Delaney, Pete Dommett, Richard Giles, Mike Jackson, Brian Lancastle, Fiona Neate, Vic Polley,  Dean Reeves, Tony Scott, Brian Thompson, Thomas Weston, Jason Williams, Keith Williams, Les Williams, blagdonlakebirds, BUPP, CVRS, nsl-birding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG