17-08-20 Monday - Crane

A bit of everything: fog on the coast first thing, sunshine and cloud for much of the day, rain in Bristol  at tea-time though certainly drier than recent days

Crane 
Garganey
Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, Ruff
Yellow-legged Gull, Common Tern

Great White Egret
Marsh Harrier, Red Kite
Redstart, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Blue-headed Wagtail, White Wagtail, Tree Pipit
Redpoll

+ Hoopoe (late report from March)

17-08-20 Wood Sandpiper and Ruff, Herriotts Bridge, CVL (Ian Stapp)

BRISTOL

16-08-20 Willow Warbler, Westbury-on-Trym (Robert Proctor)
[one of two birds]

Westbury-on-Trym

Garden (16th) - Coal Tit,  2 Willow Warbler, Blackcap

Duchess Pond:
1 m Peregrine, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Reed Bunting

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:

A Crane (heard in fog this am), 21 Chiffchaff, 3 Goldcrest, 1 Coal Tit with tit flocks, 1 Tree Pipit over, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Late March - report of a Hoopoe at the Shepperdine Riding School (i.e. paddocks to S of Lag 2), from owner..

17-08-20 Yellow Wagtails, New Passage (Adam Cross)

17-08--20 Blue-headed Wagtail, Northwick Warth (Brian Lancastle)

New Passage/Northwick:

47 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 2 Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, 6 Wheatear, 4 Yellow Wagtail (inc 1 m Blue-headed Wagtail)

17-08-20 another garden Sparrowhawk, Severn Beach (Rod Holbrook)

Chipping Sodbury Common:

4 Raven, 18 Swallow, 1 m. Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 1 Wheatear, 

NORTH SOMERSET

Sand Point/Bay:

Middle Hope/St. Thomas’s Head -  8 Swallow, 7 House Martin, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Whitethroat, 11 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Tree Pipit, c36 Linnet, 2 Redpoll, 70 Goldfinch, 1 Reed Bunting

17-08-20 Peregrine, Birnbeck Pier, Weston-super-Mare (Simon Williams)

Anchor Head, Weston-super-Mare:

Birnbeck Pier - 1 Peregrine

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marksbury:

250+Starling on wires by traffic lights

Bishop Sutton:

4 Collared Dove,  20+ Jackdaw, still 4/5 House Martin visiting house by the school

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

6 Shoveler, 80 Teal, 26 Little Grebe, 120 Cormorant, juv Dunlin, 2 Black-tailed Godwit (ad in moult + juv), 10 Green Sandpiper, 15 Great White Egret, 9 Little Egret,  juv Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard,  female Peregrine, 3 Hobby together, 2 Ravens, 1 pair Bullfinch.

Also  2 Weasel chasing each other

Hollowbrook:

6+ Long-tailed Tit

Heron's Green:

88 Canada Goose, 6 Little Grebe (pool) 1 Common Sandpiper, 2 GBB Gull, 1 Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Common Tern through Heron's Green Bay at 10.30 am, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Little Egret, 4 Grey Heron, 2 Buzzard 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Pied Wagtail 

17-08-20 Greenshank, Stratford, CVL (George Stacey)

Stratford:

1 Greenshank, 3 Snipe

Herriott's inc Pool:

30 Canada Goose, 1 Shelduck, 20 Shoveler, 1 m Garganey  200+ Great Crested Grebe, 15 Little Grebe (11 together Stratford Bay), 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Ruff, 2 Dunlin, 3 Snipe, 9 Green Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper,   5 GBB Gull, 11 Great White Egret,  4 Little  Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 2 Marsh Harrier, juv Red Kite over Burledge Hill,  2 Buzzard, 3  Kingfisher, 10 Jackdaw, 1 Jay, 10 Swallow/ House Martin, 2 Cetti'sWarbler, 2 Reed Warbler,  large flock LTT mixed Tits 50+ in the trees in reed bed,  1 Grey Wagtail, 4 Pied Wagtail,1 White Wagtail

17-08-20 Marsh Harrier, Herriotts Bridge, CVL (Ian Stapp)

Reports: Pete Bryant, Chris Craig, Adam Cross, Rod Holbrook, Matt Hull, Brian Lancastle,  Robert Proctor, George Stacey, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Keith Vinicombe, Simon Williams, opsbirding