Tuesday 1 September 2020

01-09-20 Tuesday - Quail

Light wind, warm, sunny, and dry

Quail, Spotted Flycatcher
Cattle Egret
Whinchat
Osprey, Red Kite, Hobby
Yellow Wagtail
Garganey, Common Scoter, Whimbrel, Little Stint, White Wagtail
Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-l Gull, Black-necked Grebe
Redstart
Curlew Sandpiper, Avocet
Spotted Redshank, Bar-tailed Godwit

BRISTOL

Bishopston:
1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Jay

01-09-20 Cormorant EP (Rich Scantlebury)
Eastville Park:
12 Mute Swan - inc 6 juv, Mallard, 7 Moorhen, 2 Coot, c 20 BH Gull, 7 LBB Gull - mostly juv, 1 Cormorant - inc juv, 2 Grey Heron, 1 Great-spotted Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch

01-09-20 Blackcap Stoke Park (Martin Tarler)
Stoke Park, Duchess Pond:
1 Grey Heron, 1 Blackcap (f),

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
1 Shoveler, 10 Teal, 2 Stock Dove, 29 Ringed Plover, 24 Curlew, 14 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 52 Redshank, 1 Great White Egret, 2 Little Egret, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Peregrine, 1 Redstart, 2 Stonechat, 8 Wheatear, 1 Yellow Wagtail

Northwich Warth:
2 Avocet, 135 Ringed Plover, 4 Curlew Sandpiper - juv, 80 Dunlin, 1 Common Sandpiper,

Pilning Wetlands:
1 Cattle Egret

01-09-20 Corn Bunting CSC (Mark Coller)
Chipping Sodbury Common:
2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 6 Redstart, 1 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 1 Wheatear, 20 ~ Yellow Wagtail, 1 Corn Bunting - a 1st for the observer here,
01-09-20 Yellow Wagtail CSC (Chris Teague)

NORTH SOMERSET

Portishead - Battery Point:
1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Fulmar - up river, then down, then round, finally south

01-09-20 Sanderling Cl-Y (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon-Yeo:
100 Canada Goose, 400 Shelduck, 1 Garganey (Yeo), 220 Mallard, 2 Common Scoter (Yeo), 4 Little Grebe, 4 Coot, 25 Oystercatcher, 250 Ringed Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 220 Curlew, 2 Turnstone, 2 Sanderling, 150 Dunlin, 2 Little Stint (Yeo), 7 Common Snipe (Yeo), 2 Common Sandpiper, 180 Redshank, 3 Greenshank, 7 Cormorant, 12 Little Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier (Blake’s Pools), 1 Buzzard, 1 Peregrine, 2 Jay, 8 Skylark, 200 Swallow, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, 10 Willow Warbler, 20 Chiffchaff, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Redstart (Yeo), 4 Whinchat, 28 Wheatear, 5 White Wagtail, 15 Meadow Pipit, 1 Rock Pipit, 10 Linnet, 100 Goldfinch, 2 Reed Bunting. 

Sand Point/Bay and Middle Hope:
2 Swift, 3 Ruff, 4 Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 10 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Grey Wagtail, 5 Tree Pipit,   

Worle - garden:
1 Robin - ad, returned for the winter, although 2 juv are still about

Weston Sewage Works:
1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Ruff, 1 Spotted Redshank, 2 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 3 Wheatear

BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
3 Quail - Rushmead Fm, flew out of Wheat being harvested, 9 Spotted Flycatcher - Shire Valley.

RESERVOIRS

Blagdon Lake:
Wigeon, c10 Lapwing, 3 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, Herring Gull, 2 Raven, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit.

01-09-20 Marsh Harrier CVL (NSL birding)
Chew Valley Lake
Canada Goose, Mute Swan, 77 Shoveler, Gadwall, Mallard, Pintail, Teal, Tufted Duck, 2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Water Rail, Moorhen, Coot, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 9 Black-tailed Godwit - inc 6 juv, 14 Green Sandpiper, 1 Redshank, Black-headed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 10 Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, 14 Great White Egret, 3 Little Egret, Cormorant, Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl - hooting early afternoon, Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Hobby, Magpie, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Blue Tit, Swallow, House Martin, Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, Wren, Nuthatch, Starling, House Sparrow, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Goldfinch.

Hollowbrook:
1 Pintail

Denny Island:
1 Oystercatcher, 286 Cormorants

01-09-20 Cattle Egret CVL (Dave Hughes)
Villice:
1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, 2 Hobby

01-09-20 Kingfisher - hovering CVL (Allan Chard)
Nunnery:
1 Cattle Egret, scoped from Herriott's

01-09-20 Whinchat CVL H Green (Ian Stapp)
Heron's Green:
1 Wigeon, 5 L Grebe, 2 Common Sandpiper,  1 Mediterranean Gull - juv, 7 GB-b Gull, 2 Yellow-l Gull - ad, 5 Grey Heron, 7 GW Egret, 4 L Egret, 1 Marsh Harrier, 4 Raven - inc 2 juv, Whinchat, 5 Pied Wagtail

01-09-20 Red Kite CVL  Herriott's Bridge (Ian Stapp)
Herriott's inc Pool:
2 Wigeon, 6 Pintail, 4 Little Grebe, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 9 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper, 11 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 4 GB-b Gull, 2 Cattle Egret, 8 Grey Heron, 9 GW Egret, 5 L Egret, 1 Osprey - different from Sundays bird, 1 Red Kite, 2 Marsh Harrier, 4 Buzzard, 2 Kingfisher, 1 GS Woodpecker, 4 Hobby, 4 Jackdaw, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Grey Wagtail,  4 Pied Wagtail

Reports:  John Barnett, John Budd, Allan Chard, Mark Coller, Tony Cook, Chris Craig, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Nick Hawkridge, Pete Hazelwood, David Howes, Dave Hughes, Brian Lancastle, Andy Middleton, Mark Ponsford, Dean Reeves, Matt Rogers, Steve Sanins, Rich Scantlebury, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Martin Tayler, Chris Teague, Keith Vinicombe