Wednesday 29 July 2020

29-07-20 Wednesday - Sandwich Tern

Nice day, cloudy for a while. 

Sandwich Tern, Whimbrel
Water Rail, Kingfisher, Marsh Harrier
Yellow-legged Gull, Egyptian Goose
Wheatear, Bittern
Yellowhammer

29-07-20 Wheatear CVL (Paul Dunham)
 
BRISTOL

Arno's Vale Cemetery:
8 Woodpigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 3 Jay, 3 Magpie, 8 Great Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Blackcap - singing, 2 Wren, 6 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 6 Robin, 2 Goldfinch, 

Stockwood Openspace:
2 Pheasant, 50 Black-headed Gull, 250 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 150 Herring Gull. All on the Old Reds Rigby pitches eating ants. Also 4 Bulfinch & 5 Greenfinch

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

No news today

NORTH SOMERSET

Sand Point/Bay:
6 Whimbrel, c100 Curlew, 150 Black-headed Gull, 3 Sandwich Tern

BELOW M4 & BANES

29-07-20 Peregrine Bath (Rich Scantlebury)
Bath:
2 Swift, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cormorant, 3 Peregrine - inc 2 juv, House Martin

Pensford:
10 Collared Dove, 5 Buzzard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 5 Raven, 8 Swallow, 5 House Martin, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Nuthatch, 1 Treecreeper, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Linnet, 25 Goldfinch, 1 Yellowhammer

RESERVOIRS

29-07-20 Black-tailed Godwit CVL (Ian Stapp)

Chew Valley Lake

Dam End:
1 Egyptian Goose, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 12+ House Martin, 1 Cetti's Warbler

Villice:
1 Wheatear

Heron's Green:
200+ Canada Goose, 5 Little Grebe - pool,  1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 5 Grey Heron, 1 Great White Egret,  4 Pied Wagtail

Ringing Station:
Quite a nice recapture of a Goldfinch this morning. Ringed here in Nov 2016 as a bird hatched that year and sexed as a female. She was recaptured in Dec 2017. Today, unless she goes for a late brood, her brood patch indicates that the breeding season is coming to an end for her.

29-07-20 Kingfisher CVL (Paul Dunham)
Stratford:
1 Water Rail, 200+ Great Crested Grebe, 9 Great Black-backed Gull - on the lake, 1 Bittern, 4 Grey Heron, 4 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 35 Cormorant - island, 1 Marsh Harrier - juv, over East reed bed, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 1 Song Thrush, 3+ Reed Warbler - family party

29-07-20 Great White Egret CVL Herriotts Pool (Ian Stapp)
 
Herriott's - inc Pool:
32 Canada Goose, 4 Shelduck, 1 Water Rail - calling lake side reeds, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, 2 Redshank - in & out pool, 4 Great Black-backed Gull,  3 Grey Heron - pool, 7 Great White Egret - all in pool for a short while, 4 Little Egret, 3 Kingfisher, 2 Reed Bunting

Reports: Paul Bowyer, Paul Dunham, Paul Francis, Alastair Fraser, Annie & Nick Hawkridge, Mike Moxon, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, CVRS