27-08-20 Thursday - Grasshopper Warbler

A day of two halves:  early drizzle turned into torrential rain, then cleared to a cool, pleasant late afternoon with a light NE wind.  Felt very autumnal.

Whimbrel
Black Tern
Great White Egret, Cattle Egret
Ex-Gannet
Grasshopper Warbler, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit
Spotted Flycatcher

Marsh Harrier

Lesser Whitethroat - a surprise visitor to Lucy Masters' garden

BRISTOL

Clifton:
Marsh Tit in its regular garden.

27-08-20 Kingfisher and Dipper (Allan Chard)

Eastville Park - R Frome:
1 Kingfisher, 1 Dipper

Stockwood:
1 Cormorant - rare to get them over the garden

Redstart at Chipping Sodbury Common (Mark Coller)

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Hawkesbury Common:
3 Wheatear.

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Kingfisher, c.15 Chiffchaff, c.20 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Redstart, 2  Yellow Wagtail, Pied Wagtail.

Littleton, Whale Wharf:
2 dead Gannets.

7 Whimbrel, 50 Curlew, 4 Little Egret, 4 Wheatear.

Swallows and Sand Martins hawking for insects underneath trees.

Chipping Sodbury Common:

(7.30-10 a.m.) 2 Raven, 11 Chiffchaff, Grasshopper Warbler, 8 Blackcap, 7 Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, 5 Redstart, 4 Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, 18 Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit. 

juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker in an Uphill garden (Ian Foster)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portbury Wharf:
2 Redshank, 30 House Martin, 20 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin.

Woodpigeon family in a Keynsham garden (Ian Stapp)

BELOW M4 & BANES

No reports but a nice family photograph, above.

RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake
9 Great White Egret around the lake, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Marsh Harrier

Woodford:
2 juv. Black Tern, 100 Swallow.

Parkland:
3 Cattle Egret.

Moreton:
1 Cattle Egret.

Stratford:

2 Black Tern

Herriott's inc Pool:
c. 200 Sand Martin.

Reports: Allan Chard, Mark Coller, Chris Craig, Andy Davis, David Esam, Dom Godfrey, Lucy Masters, Richard Mielcarek, Vic Polley, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Bri Thompson, CVRS, opsbirding