Friday, 7 August 2020

07-08-20 Friday - Common Tern

Increasingly hot (Bristol temperature peaked at 27°C) but intermittent cloud cover and some small showers prevented the heat wave conditions experienced elsewhere in the country today


Wood Sandpiper
Mediterranean Gull
Common Tern
Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier 
Little Owl
Marsh Tit
         
07-08-20 nice study of a female Mallard, Herriotts Pool, CVL (George Stacey)


BRISTOL
   
Bishop Road to Horfield Common:
7 Swift, 14 Woodpigeon, 25 Herring Gull, 41 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 8 Carrion Crow, 7 Magpie, 6 Jackdaw, 2 Blue Tit, 1 Wren, 6 Starling, 3 Robin, 42 House Sparrow, 6 Goldfinch

Clifton:
Percival Road garden - 2 Marsh Tit on feeders

St Andrew's:
c 20 Swift overhead mid-afternoon

06-08-20 Sparrowhawk,Bishopston, Bristol  (John Rossetti)
Coombe Dingle:
Garden - 1 Willow Warbler (brief visitor early morning - presumed migrant)

Blaise Estate:
Castle Hill - 2 Raven

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
2 ad Mediterranean Gull

Redwick:
7 Buzzards kettling late morning

Little Stoke:
50+ Swifts over at 16.50

NORTH SOMERSET

No reports

BELOW M4 & BANES
   


07-08-20 Little Owl, Pensford (Paul Sawyer)

Pensford:
1 Little Owl

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Top End - 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 9 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret

Chew Valley Lake
 
Heron's Green:
6 Little Grebe, 1 Great White Egret1 Little Egret , 2 Grey Heron 

   
07-08-20 Common Tern, Herriott's Pool (Ian Stapp)

Herriott's inc Pool:
16 Canada Goose, 4 Shelduck, 2 Collared Dove, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 10 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 GBB Gull,1 Common Tern (on mud pool for a short time),8 Great White Egret, 5 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, Kingfisher, 9 Jackdaw, 2 Cetti's Warbler,2+ Reed Warbler,1 Reed Bunting

Other dragonflies (all in the channel )
4 Small Red-eye Damselfly, 3 Common Blue Damselfly,2 Brown Hawker,1 Migrant Hawker,
1 Emperor Dragonfly

Out of Avon 
Corsham - adult Rose-Coloured Starling still present for third day

Reports: Adrian Adams, John Budd,,Ken Carruthers, William Earp, David Esam, Peter Hazelwood, Rod Holbrook, Nigel Milbourne, Paul Sawyer, Ian Stapp,