Thursday 10 September 2020

10-09-20 Thursday - Bittern

Fine if overcast, some sun.  Mild with a light wind, quite a warm afternoon.

Bittern
Spotted Redshank
Curlew Sandpipers
Cattle Egrets
Osprey, Hobby, Red Kite
Whinchats, Redstarts, Yellow Wagtails

Redatart and Spotted Flycatcher at
Chipping Sodbury Common (Ian Loats)

BRISTOL

Eastville Park:
1 Shoveler (rare here), 1 Cormorant 

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Oldbury Power Station:
13 Canada Goose, 1 Greylag Goose, 5 Mallard, 1 Little Egret, Red Kite (Shepperdine), Woodpigeon, Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow, 2 Raven, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, 1 Redstart, 1 Whinchat, Starling, 1 m. Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, Goldfinch, 2 Siskin over.

10-09-20 Wheatear Aust Cliff (Vic Savery)
Aust Cliff:
1 Great Black-b Gull, 1 Wheatear, 

10-09-20 Curlew Sandpiper NP (Cliff Smith)
New Passage/Northwick:
Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 6 juv. Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Egret, 1 f. Blackcap.

Severn Beach:
a little video of a Sparrowhawk and the panicky House Sparrow 

Chipping Sodbury Common:
Sparrowhawk, 4 Buzzard, 2 Green Woodpecker, Kestrel, hundreds corvids probably Rook and Jackdaw, 1 Willow Warbler, 10+ Chiffchaff, 2+ Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Common Whitethroat, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Redstart, 7 Whinchat, 3 Stonechat, 5 Wheatear,  4 Yellow Wagtail, 12 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit and 1 Greenfinch, 

NORTH SOMERSET

Clevedon-Yeo:
Marsh Harrier.

A Bittern seen near Backwell today (Chris James)
Backwell:
Bittern

10-09-20  Wheatear Sand Point (Dean Reeves)
Sand Point/Bay:
4 Oystercatcher, 80 Curlew, 1 Dunlin, 13 Little Egret, 200+ House Martin (heading south), 1 Sand Martin, 11 Swallow, 100 House Martin (moving west), 6 Chiffchaff, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Whitethroat, 10 Blackcap, 5 Wheatear, 4 Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail, 30 Meadow Pipit. 4 Siskin, 2 Reed Bunting (over).

Middle Hope:
vismig - 1hr count - 427 Swallow, 10 House Martin
present - 1 Skylark, 1 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff - 2 singing, 1 Blackcap - subsong, 2 Whitethroat - juv, 1 Goldcrest, 3 Whinchat, 4 Stonechat - family, 2 Wheatear (f), 35+ House Sparrow, 70+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Reed Bunting - juv

Weston-Super-Mare:
Two Swallow over a garden.

Whinchat at Marshfield (Pete Coslett)
BELOW M4 & BANES

Marshfield:
No sightings at all today of the shrike.
3 Buzzard, 3 Kestrel, 1 Raven, 2 Skylark, 2 Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Mistle Thrush, 4 Whinchat, 2 Stonechat, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 18 Linnet, Goldfinch, 3 Corn Bunting, 7 Yellowhammer.

Osprey still at Chew today (Ian Stapp)
RESERVOIRS

Chew Valley Lake

Villace:
30+ Wigeon, 3 Common Sandpiper, 1 Cattle Egret, 2 Great White Egret, 1 Kingfisher,1 Cetti's Warbler,  

Parkland:
7 Willow Warbler, 10 Chiffchaff, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Bullfinch, 

Stratford:
Spotted Redshank, 18 Little Grebe

Herriott's Bridge:
1 Shelduck, 16 Pintail, 2 Water Rail (1 calling, 1 in the channel), 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Green Sandpiper, 3 Greenshank, 5 G BB Gull, 50+ Cormorant, 2 Cattle Egret, 6 Grey Heron, 5 Great White Egret, 4 Little Egret, 1 Osprey (the one with the missing wing feathers), 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Marsh Harrier, 3 Buzzard, 2 Hobby, 2+ Kingfisher, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 6 Jackdaw, 2 Raven, 20+ LT Tit, 50+ hirundine, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 3 House Sparrow, 1 Grey Wagtail.

Black-tailed Godwit at Herriotts Pool (Ian Stapp)

Reports:  Karen Ash, Phil Baber, Allan Chard, Pete Coslett, Anne Crowe, Jane Cumming, Alastair Fraser, Paul Gregory, Rod Holbrook, Sue Howard, Chris James, Ian Loats, Glen Maddison, Phil Quinn, George Rabin, Dean Reeves, Vic Savery, Rosemary Setter, Nigel Sluman, Cliff Smith, Ian Stapp, Larry Sweetland, Howard Taffs, opsbirding.