Wednesday 22 July 2020

22-07-20 Wednesday - Bar-tailed Godwit

Sunny - light breeze, really glorious

Avocet, Redstart
Little Ringed Plover, Kingfisher
Yellow-legged Gull
Marsh Harrier
Red Kite
Yellow Wagtail
Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-headed Goose
Wood Sandpiper
Hobby

22-07-20 Marsh Harrier CVL (Robert Hargreaves)
 
BRISTOL

Bishopston - garden:
4 Swift - red letter day!!

Bishop Rd to Horfield Common:
5 Swift, 13 Woodpigeon, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Herring Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 10 Magpie, 2 Jackdaw, 4 Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Swallow, 1 Wren, 4 Starling, 5 Blackbird, 1 Robin, 38 House Sparrow, 2 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch

Redland - garden:
3 Swift, 1 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 5 Herring Gull - over, 3 Blue Tit, 1 Great Tit, 1 Robin -juv, 6+ House Sparrow, Goldfinch heard.

Sea Mills - R Avon:
20 .Mallard, 3 Common Sandpiper, 9 Redshank, 45 Black headed gull, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Green Woodpecker

Westbury-on-Trym:
22 Swift - appear to be heading away!

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

New Passage/Northwick:
18 Oystercatcher, 49 Curlew, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Turnstone

Pilning Wetlands:
Water Rail - calling, 4 Avocet, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 47 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Turnstone, c230 Dunlin - inc 4 juv, 108 Redshank, 1 Redstart - fem/ imm 

Chipping Sodbury Common:
1 Red Kite, 5 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Kestrel, 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Lesser Whitethroat - skulking, c30 Linnet

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury - Estuary shore & mud:
21 Canada Goose, 1 Bar-headed Goose, 5 Shelduck - inc 3 juv, 3 Whimbrel - upriver,  150 Black-headed Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Rock Pipit, more Linnet than you could shake a stick at. 

Clevedon Town ctr:
4 Peregrine - circling & playing over the town this morning

Clevedon - Blind Yeo:
6 Canada Goose, 5 Moorhen incl. juvs, 15 Black- headed Gull, 1 Grey Heron, c.20 House Martin, 2 Greenfinch.

Walton Common:
1 Great-spotted Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 2 Nuthatch

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
4 Grey Heron, 2 Little Egret, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Treecreeper - juv,  5 Mistle Thrush, and 4 Grey Wagtail.

West Kington:
2 Kestrel., 2 Yellow Wagtail, 10 Linnet - at least, 3 Corn Bunting

Hanham - garden:
2 Raven - over

RESERVOIRS

22-07-20 Wood Sandpiper BG tank 2 (Sean Davies)
Barrow Tanks:
2 Little Ringed Plover - juv, 2 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Hobby, Sand Martin

22-07-20 Sand Martin, Barrow Tanks (Robert Hargreaves)

Chew Valley Lake

22-07-20 Dunlin CVL Dam (Ian Stapp)
Dam End:
22 Canada Goose, 4 Swift, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 80+ Black-headed Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Grey Heron, 6 Little Egret, 20+ House Martin,  6 Pied Wagtail

22-07-20 Yellow-legged Gull CVL H Green wall with a fish (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
176 Canada Goose,  6 Little Grebe, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 2 Sedge Warbler 5 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

Moreton:
30+ Woodpigeon, 5 Great Black-backed Gull, 3 Grey Heron, 1 Marsh Harrier, 12+ Jackdaw, 30+ Carrion Crow, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker - cottage garden, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay, 1 Wren, 3 Dunnock, 

22-07-20 Marsh Harrier CVL (Paul Dunham)
Stratford:
5 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier

22-07-20 Common Sandpiper CVL (Geeorge Stacey)

Herriott's - inc Pool:

77 Canada Goose, 4 Shelduck, 31 Teal, 2+ Swift, 200 Great-crested Grebe - all together, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpiper, 9 Green Sandpiper, 6 Great Black-backed Gull, 7 Grey Heron, 6 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Buzzard, 3 Kingfisher, 1 Hobby, 8 Jackdaw, some Sand Martin, 4+ Swallow, 20+ House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 House Sparrow, 2 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Reed Bunting

    Reports: Martin Aspinall, Nancy Barrett, John Budd, Jonathan Bull, Chris Craig, Sean Davies, Paul Dunham, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Matt Plenty, Robert Proctor, Lois Pryce, Paul Sawyer, Tony Scott, George Stacey,  Ian Stapp, Keith Williams