13-08-20 Thursday - Grasshopper Warbler

Overcast and murky, very muggy after overnight storms.

Wood Sandpipers

Yellow-legged Gull

Grasshopper Warbler

Yellow Wagtails

Marsh Harrier

Ruff

Redstart

Waders at Chew (Raoul Chandrasakera)

                                                 

BRISTOL

Henbury:
1 Green Woodpecker, 6 Long-tailed Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Nuthatch.

R.Frome:
Dipper

Sea Mills:
6 Common Sandpiper.

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Bagstone (Wotton-under-Edge):
Barn Owl, 4:20 a.m.

New Passage/Northwick:
31 Teal, 3 Yellow Wagtail.

Pilning Wetlands:
13 Shoveler, 1 ad. and 3 juv. Little Ringed Plover, 43 Black-tailed Godwit (including the one with black neck collar), 1 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 juv. Wood Sandpiper.

Chipping Sodbury Common:

2 Redstart - only thing of note today.

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
55 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Stock Dove (displaying), 4 Chiffchaff.

Clevedon:

Grasshopper Warbler heard (from home) five times between 2 a.m. and 2:40 a.m.

Clevedon-Yeo:

30 Ringed Plover, 20 Dunlin, 34 Curlew, 2 Wheatear (Channel View).

Worle:
Peregrine.

13-08-20 Kestrel Bleadon Levels (Bill Hewittt)

 Bleadon Levels/Axe Estuary:

2 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, plenty of Redshank, 1 Kestrel, 1 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 8 Linnet, 

BELOW M4 & BANES
no news

Sedge Warbler playing hide-and-seek at Stratford (Lucy Masters)

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
19 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, Dunlin.

Canada Geese menacing the fisherman at Chew (George Stacey)

Dam:
Flock of Canada Goose "attacking fishermen", 4 Common Sandpiper.

Greenshank at Stratford (Lucy Masters)

Heron's Green:
 juv. Yellow-legged Gull.

13-08-20 Marsh Harrier CVL (Paul Dunham)

 Morton:

1 Greenshank, 2 Marsh Harrier, several Buzzard, 1 Kestrel, 

Stratford:
Several Black-tailed Godwit, some Ruff, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 10 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 Sedge Warbler.

Black-tailed Godwits at Herriotts Bridge (George Stacey)

Herriott's inc Pool:
8 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 juv. Wood Sandpiper.

Reports:   Paul Bowerman, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Stephen Curtis & Carol Rushton, Andy Davis, Paul Dunham, Heather England, Bill Hewitt, Lucy Masters, Andy Middleton, Matt Plenty, Vic Polley, Dean Reeves, George Stacey, Chris Stone, Howard Taffs.